The first parade of the Mardi Gras season took place as scheduled in the French Quarter despite security fears following the ...

Heroine or Heretic? - Joan had been sold out to the English. Bishop Pierre Cauchon was determined to prove the inaccuracy of ...

The Mad King - Before we can really get into Joan of Arc's life, we have to get a bit into the civil war between the ...

Joan of Arc Museum, Orléans Photograph by Bridgeman ... Julien Théry teaches medieval history at the Center for Medieval Studies, Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier, France.

“a charism that sees the sanctity of life as supreme and offers the consecrated lives of their members as an oblation to end the greatest evil of our time and to help women embrace their vocation as ...

The first parade of the Mardi Gras season will roll tonight, less than a week after a man drove his truck into crowds on ...

The parade that gets the Mardi Gras season started will be bigger, start later, and follow a reversed route this year.

Joan of Arc was as religious as a person can get without turning into a stained-glass window. When she was just 13 she claimed to have been visited by three saints – Michael, Catherine and Margaret.

Hundreds gathered in New Orleans’ famed French Quarter to celebrate the first parade of Carnival season, just blocks from ...

In 1412, tradition holds that Joan of Arc was born this day in Domremy. In 1540, England’s King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.) ...

Joan d’Arc, who lived just 19 years, packed a lot into her short life. When she was 13, Joan began to have visions of herself leading France to victory over England—and though she was just a ...

The very first parade of the Carnival season is also one of the very best. On Jan. 6, the 17th annual Joan of Arc parade will march through the French Quarter, celebrating the birthday of the ...