Why is she depicted with a sword?
Costume jewelry/
Less emphasized is Joan's refusal to give up male attire.
Imagine, she was willing to die at the stake for this, and refusing she heard voices!
Patron saints of cross dressers?
Liberated women to wear pants suits?
A little girl in Indiana was refused her First Communion for wearing a white suit.
She was channeling Joan?
Needs a sword to defend herself from men who wear gowns.