The fact that a death and not current events motivated the theme of the Ovi History issue was pure coincidence. Still, here we are; 15th issue of Ovi History and first for 2026 and that while events and the madness of the very few shakes humanity.
And yes it was the death of a controversial silver screen star, Ms Brigitte Bardot and her very politically controversial past that brought in mind Jean d'Arc whose legend lives similar to Ms Bardot presence.
St. Joan of Arc is a national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War. Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned to death by the English and their French collaborators as a heretic. She became the greatest national heroine of her compatriots, and her achievement was a decisive factor in the later awakening of French national consciousness.
Joan was the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domrémy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine. In her mission of expelling the English and their Burgundian allies from the Valois kingdom of France, she felt herself to be guided by the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine of Alexandria, and St. Margaret of Antioch.
Joan was endowed with remarkable mental and physical courage, as well as a robust common sense, and she possessed many attributes characteristic of the female visionaries who were a noted feature of her time. These qualities included extreme personal piety, a claim to direct communication with the saints, and a consequent reliance upon individual experience of God’s presence beyond the ministrations of the priesthood and the confines of the institutional church.
For this issue of Ovi History, two historical fiction short stories from Lucas Durand and James O. Miller.
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