Joan of Arc’s story is one of the most extensively documented cases of a miraculous-seeming intervention into secular history, calculated to baffle, fascinate, and even charm like almost nothing else in Western history. If Joan’s story challenges skeptics to explain how a career like hers could be possible without supernatural aid, she also challenges Christians and her other religiously inclined fans to explain why, exactly, God sent her to save France. Perhaps because God loves the French in a special way, and they have a cosmic destiny that still waits to be fulfilled.
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