Joan of Arc is considered a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years’ War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was 19 years old. Twenty-five years after the execution, Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent and declared her a martyr. Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920

The lace of the bottom represents her plates of armour, the flames as she was burned at the stake and the fleur di lis represents France.
Test knit by the amazing nuspinr
This shawl is part of the scholarship fund info in the Ryan Eejit Group