Pope Joan And Joan Of Arc: The French Restoration Of A Feminine Church

Johannes Anglicus or Pope Joan – (first described in Jean de Mailly’s Chronica Universalis Mettensis), and Jeanne d’ Arc – a young mystic who helped liberate France, both have names translating to “Joan” in English. So it might only be an English-speaking person who would mentally link these women of Catholic ordination together. There are, however, a few other clearly defined similarities between the two, such as: