JOAN OF ARC DAY
OBSERVANCE IN FRANCE. Sunday, May 11, was the day for the celebration of Joan of Arc in France. How that day has been celebrated is now known. In peace time hundreds of young persons marched past the statue of the Maid in the Rue de Rivoli, Paris, with its pedestal a mass of flowers, and there was also a gathering at the statue of Joan of Arc on the large open space before the church of St. Augustin. But it is not only in the capital that the saint is honoured. Every church throughout France has its statue of Joan of Arc. She is for the French a symbol, something of a great hope, and in this year of strife and hardship how many thousands will have knelt before these shrines and prayed for the deliverance of France. How many, too, will have associated her with General de Gaulle, whose rallying sign is the cross of Lorraine —and Joan came from Lorraine. A compilation made some years ago showed that there were more statues to Joan of Arc in the world than to any other saint. There is one in Winchester Cathedral, and another in Melbourne, Australia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1941, Page 2
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