St joan

Letter to the Hussites (March 23, 1430)

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“QRT your art with...The moooooon 🌚”

What possessed, Joan of Arc, a normal, 15th century teenaged girl from a modest village, to travel for 11 days to tell the dauphin of France she needed to lead an an army to Orléans to save the country from English power? What possessed the dauphin to grant her request, against the advice of his councilors and generals?

what the banner looked like that was used at St. Joan of Arc's canonization ceremony at the Vatican on May 16, 1920:

St Leonard, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire To the Glory of God & in loving memory of Harold Ernest Brassey, Major Royal Horse Guards, Lt Col commanding 8th Batt South Lancashire Regt. Killed in action 16th July 1916, laid to rest in the Cemetery at Bouzincourt near Albert. Aged 39. A detail of this window. From Woodnewton I cycled north accompanied by drifting red kites to one of the real goals of my journey, the church at Apethorpe. One of the pleasures of this part of the world is that, like…