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Joan of Ark was born in Domremy on the borders of Champagne and Lorraine probably on January 6, 1412. She died on May 30, 1431 at Rouen. Joan's father, Jacques Darc was a peasant. Her mother was Isabella de Vouthon. She was the child out of the five. She was skilled in sewing, spinning, and other housekeeping skills by her mother. She also learned religion. However, she had never learned how to read or write. There is an idea that she spent days of her childhood in the pastures with the sheep and cattle. People described her as absorbed in her prayer. She also had great love for the poor.
In the summer of 1425 she began to hear people speak to her. She was thirteen and a half at the time. At first, it was a voice but then it came with a stream of light. Next, she saw an individual appearance of each one of them. She recognized them as St. Michael with other angels, St. Margaret, and St. Catherine.
Huge efforts have been made by rationalistic historians to explain these voices......

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