It’s been almost 600 years since the trial and execution of Joan of Arc, and her memory hasn’t faded. From novels, plays and movies to scholarly books and endless theories about how she heard the ...

The very first parade of the Carnival season is also one of the very best. On Jan. 6, the 17th annual Joan of Arc parade will march through the French Quarter, celebrating the birthday of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) Baz Luhrmann has found his next film and will tackle a project set around the story of ...

The 18th Annual Joan of Arc Parade marches on Joan of Arc’s 614th birthday on January 6, 2026, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the French Quarter, and will feature more participants than ever, a new route, a ...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but gender variance has existed throughout human history. Many Catholic monks and saints were gender-fluid, with some only discovered as such after death. Union ...

Every year, on the evening of Jan. 6, members of the Krewe de Jeanne d’Arc gather at the gilded Decatur Street statue of the French warrior-saint who's their namesake to begin their mounted Medieval ...

A statue of St. Joan of Arc is seen in the courtyard of the headquarters of the National Front political party in Nanterre, France, in this 2012 photo. This year, the Catholic Church celebrates the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. History books tell us that Joan of Arc was a pretty serious young woman. The poor French shepherd-turned-crusader was fanatically devout--she was said ...

A MODEST, 15th-century silver ring for which an ambitious London dealer might ask £1,000 sold for an astonishing £297,000 at TimeLine Auctions on February 25th, a world auction record for a medieval ...