Saint Joan of Arc — The Maid of Orléans Women’s Semi-Fitted Tee

Called to stand. Refusing to retreat.

At seventeen, Joan of Arc entered the Hundred Years’ War with an unwavering conviction that would change the course of France. She helped rally French forces during the siege of Orléans, carried her standard into battle and remained faithful through imprisonment and martyrdom.

Garment details

• 100% ring-spun cotton
• Midweight 4.5-ounce fabric
• Semi-fitted women’s cut
• Side-seamed construction
• Narrow ribbed collar
  

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The Woman Behind the Standard.

She was a young French peasant, born in 1412 — ninety years into the Hundred Years' War — in the small village of Domremy in eastern France. She could not read. She could not write. She had never held a command.

Visited by St. Michael the Archangel and commissioned by God at the age of thirteen to lead the army of France and bring an end to the bloodiest war in European history up to that point, Joan of Arc seems more legend than history. She was not. Every word of it is documented in court records, military dispatches, and the sworn testimony of those who served beside her.

Although just seventeen when she left home, with no training beyond spinning wool and sheep-herding, Joan's goals were ambitious: lift the siege of Orléans, free France of its English occupiers, restore the Kingdom of France, and see its leader, Charles VII, crowned King.

Clad in bright armour and mounted on a coal-black steed, she was allowed to proceed with the army detailed to raise the siege of Orléans. She did not arrive as a symbol. She arrived as a soldier and she led from the front. By May 8, the English forts which encircled the city had all been captured. Joan had been wounded in the upper chest/breast by an arrow on the 7th and yet had continued to fight.

She was captured in 1430. What followed was not a trial, it was a political execution dressed in ecclesiastical robes. When Joan was tried in the French town of Rouen, it was not for attacking English armies, but for the ecclesiastical offense of heresy. Although illiterate and facing execution if convicted, she was never allowed a lawyer. Her trial was rife with irregularities that would today be grounds for a mistrial.

She was nineteen years old.

On the morning of May 30, in prison, she received Holy Communion for the last time and was immediately led to the stake in the Old Market Square. She asked one of the priests to hold a processional cross in front of her. She died with her gaze fixed upon the crucified Jesus, crying out the name of Jesus.

Joan was beatified in 1909 and canonized by Benedict XV in 1920. Her feast is celebrated on May 30th. She is the patron saint of France and of soldiers, of prisoners, and of those who have been condemned by unjust authority.

Faith Handed Down. Worn Boldly.