Joan of Arc – the Warrior Saint
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Recorded on April 27, 2025 at 2:00 pm Program Runtime: 01:25:14 The program was recorded at: Greece Historical Society Presenter: Stephen Richey |
Mr. Richey’s presentation will explore how Joan of Arc, an illiterate teenage peasant farm girl, a nobody from nowhere, achieved the seemingly impossible. In the space of a single year, 1429, she rose up from total obscurity to take command of the defeated and demoralized French army and led that army in a series of astounding battlefield victories to free her French homeland from the English invaders.
Stephen Richey was raised in Greece, graduating from Olympia High School in 1976. He graduated from the United States Military academy at West Point in 1984. He served out his military career in various places around the world, to include four tours of duty in wartime Iraq, until his retirement in 2010. He is the author of the scholarly book Joan of Arc: The Warrior Saint. He also appeared as an expert authority in the television documentary “Saint Joan of Arc: Maid for God.”
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