The impossibility of Joan of Arc, the one story that could transform even Mark Twain into a believer

Joan of Arc

How did an illiterate peasant that never sat on a horse in her entire life, much less have military training of any kind, march to war at seventeen years old, change the entire fate of France, and then defy the learned authorities of the Church for six months before being executed at nineteen?  In many… Continue reading The impossibility of Joan of Arc, the one story that could transform even Mark Twain into a believer