SAINT JOAN of ARC is a peasant girl born in Eastern France who led the French Army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' war, claiming divine guidance. She was captured and sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old. Twenty four years later, the court found her innocent and declared her a martyr. She is a patron saint of captives, people ridiculed for their piety, prisoners, soldiers, women appointed for voluntary emergency service and women's army corps. Her feast day is celebrated on May 30.