MAID OF ORLEANS
oOOTH ANNIVERSARY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, February 25. “ The' Times ” Paris correspondent says: A prolonged commemoration of St. Joan of Arc’s five hundredth anniversary began to-day at Vnucouters, the Lorraine village, whence there began lier historic'journey to C'hinon in order to inept the Dauphin. The village is gaily decorated. It is filled with delegations from every part of France, There was fine frosty weather to-day and the air resounded the church bells which were pealing in every church in Lorraine as a. procession wended its way to the stone gateway on the hiT outside the village to which Joan and her companions rode. The procession halted at the clnipcl, in which Joan prayed, and also at the old lime tree, where, according to tradition, J*nn heard her supernatural voices. The Bishop of Verdun unveiled a tablet at the gateway. He then told the story of Joan’s eleven days’ ride astride a farm horse, though she had not ridden a horse before. Tbe Bishop added that Joan’s remains were the symbol of tile fortitude of France.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1929, Page 6
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180MAID OF ORLEANS Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1929, Page 6
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