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The "Maid of Orleans," Joan of Arc is a national heroine of France and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She helped inspire Charles VII's troops to retake most of his dynasty's former territories, which had been under English and Burgundian dominance during the Hundred Years' War. She later was convicted of heresy (overturned posthumously) and burnt at the stake at the age of nineteen. Pope Benedict XV canonized her on 16 May 1920 and is now one of the most popular saints of the Catholic Church. Shown here is a statue of Joan of Arc inside Notre Dame de Paris, a gothic cathedral in Paris, where she was beatified in 1909. Photo credit: Steven G. Johnson |