Joan of Arc, like Barbara Blaine, was indeed fueled by an unwavering clarity of conviction. But Joan did not act/take up arms for the king--she claimed to be God's messenger acting on voices (from St. Michael, St. Margaret & St Catherine) instructing her to rid the English from France and to bring dauphin Charles to the throne. She raised the Seige of Orleans defeated the English and brought Charles to be crowned.  The English-allied clergy in Paris, embarrassed by her victory and wanting to discredit Charles' crown, held a  4-month inquisition trial and condemned her to burn at the stake in 1431. Her crime? She refused to answer  first to the Church clergy (Church Militant) as Joan claimed to answer to God first (Church Triumphant). Nearly 500 years later the Church  beatified her (1909) for purely political purposes: nationalism was emerging on the global arena, and they wanted Joan to represent "moral goodness" for women as the suffragist movement was transforming women's role.