Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France.
By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country. Though she was captured and executed for her beliefs, Joan of Arc became a Catholic saint and has since captured the world's imagination.
聖女貞德生在法國一個小小的村莊,此時正逢英法百年戰爭最艱困的時期,法軍已被英軍圍困許久。貞德 11 歲時,天主的啟示指引她從軍,為法蘭西國王效力。
那時,她還只是一位少女,卻以祖國的名義帶領軍隊。儘管最後因其信念被捕並被處死,貞德卻成了天主教的聖人。自此之後,她的事蹟亦開始引起世人的興趣和關注。