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Joan of Arc: The Teenager Who Heard Voices

A peasant girl from France, Joan of Arc claimed to have received visions from saints instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination during the Hundred Years’ War. She successfully led French armies to key victories while still a teenager. Her capture, trial for heresy, and eventual execution at the stake made her a martyr and a national symbol of France, later canonized as a saint.