#just found her autobiography while looking through my grandmother's books and i am very excited to read it!

[cheerfullycatholic]

At the bottom of a black dungeon, laden with heavy chains,

The cruel foreigner filled you with grief.

Not one of your friends took part in your pain.

Not one came forward to wipe your tears. Joan, in your dark prison you seem to me

More radiant, more beautiful than at your King’s coronation.

This heavenly reflection of eternal glory,

Who then brought it upon you? It was betrayal.Ah! If the God of love in this valley of tears

Had not come to seek betrayal and death,

Suffering would hold no attraction for us.

Now we love it; it is our treasure.

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