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[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it if I am, may He preserve me in it.

Joan of Arc

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Joan of Arc
Age: 19 †
Born: 1412
Born: January 6
Died: 1431
Died: May 30
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The Maid of Orléans
Jeanne d'Arc
La Pucelle d'Orléans
Saint Joan of Arc
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Sainte Jeanne d’Arc
Jeanne d’Arc
The Maid of Orleans
Jehanne d'Arc
Maid of Orleans
La Pucelle
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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English and to raise the siege of Orléans.
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Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
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Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
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If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.
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