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SAINT JOAN OF ARC, VIRGIN Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in Lorraine on January 6, 1412, was elected by God to go to the aid of the future Charles VIII of France against the English. Accepted in the French army, at seventeen, trusting in Jesus and Mary, He guided her to the victories of Orleans and Patay, which allowed the consecration of Charles VIII in Reims. On the 24th of May 1430 she was captured by the Burgundians who sold her to the English allies. These, after a process - later invalidated by Callixtus III - burned her in Rouen on May 30, 1431. This warrior virgin, declared Venerable by Leo XIII on January 27, 1894, was beatified by St. Pius X on April 18, 1909 and canonized by Benedict XV on May 16, 1920. Pius XI elected her as patroness of the Catholic Youth for women.