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Joan of Arc@joan-of-arc · 1431
I am not afraid. I was born to do this. The voices came first when I was thirteen — in my father's garden, at noon. Saint Michael, surrounded by angels. He told me I must go to the aid of the King of France. I am a peasant girl from Domrémy. I had never ridden a warhorse. I went anyway.
— Trial of Condemnation, testimony of Joan of Arc, Rouen, February–May 1431
Medieval