THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC
THE WITCH—SAINT
By M. M. Mangasarian
Lecturer Of The Independent Religious Society
From "The Rationalist," October, 1913
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JOAN OF ARC
This lecture on Joan of Arc, delivered some time ago, provoked a great deal of criticism in Chicago. The people who protested against it and wanted to punish its author were, naturally enough, the Roman Catholics. What interests me in Joan of Arc is not the fact that the story of her martyrdom and subsequent canonization could be used as a weapon against the Church of Rome, but because the story in itself is so very compelling. It is quite true that the