Joan of Arc canonised
1920 · Event
Four hundred and eighty-nine years after the Church burned her, the Church declares her a saint — before 60,000 people in St Peter's, with a France fresh from the trenches watching her as a national icon. Condemned heretic, patron saint: no reversal in history is more complete.
On these timelines: Joan of Arc, Women in history, France, Christianity, Major Religions
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