A topicality of Saint Joan’s example
Saints are always different from everyday people, thus no one understands them in their lives, only a lot of years after their death. Joan of Arc was a saint like this as well, she was too far ahead of her times and was killed by her fellow men, because they didn’t know what else to do. She was canonized in 1920, after 489 years of her death. In my opinion, she was not only a saint, but meant to be an angel and showed a good example to all of us, how to behave ourselves in the name of honour, honesty, and glory.
Joan was a very simple, faithful country girl. Until a day God called upon her, to fight in his name against the invading English. At that moment, Joan was chosen a messenger of God. Joan's first encounter with her voices occured when she was around thirteen years old. At her trial she described this as a vision of St. Michael:
"I saw him before my eyes; he was not alone but quite surrounded by the angels of heaven"
It was her destiny and the fulfillment of prophecy that a maiden girl from Lorraine would perform a miracle to save France. From that day something changes in her personality. She reveals her true face, what she could turn into in danger. Her character divides in two parts: Into a soldier, a physical being, only flesh and blood, and into a saint, a spiritual being, who represents a higher power. When she protested that she had no experience in such forms of leadership, that she knew nothing about riding and warfare, her voices reassured her that she would be led to operate quickly and effectively among those who held authority. She would succeed in convincing them to allow her access to the long disabled royal court and French army ...