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Joan of Arc in Lagny-sur-Marne: the miracle of the dead babies

Joan came in this church | Mon Œil / CC-BY
Hundred Years War Miracle Abbot church Joan of Arc Notre-Dame-des-Ardents church in Lagny-sur-Marne

Burgundians and Armagnacs were waging war during the Hundred Years War in Ile-de-France...

Joan of Arc turned up in Lagny with her little troop. We were in April 1430… and a miracle happened.

People from the village came one day to see Joan, and brought her back in the church.

Here, lying in front of the statue of Notre-Dame-des-Ardents, a baby, who died 3 days ago. He had his skin already black, said a chronicler…

The little boy had died without baptism, and his mother took him here, next to the statue, hoping for a miracle…

Joan started to pray. And suddenly… the kid resurrected, he yawned 3 times! They immediately baptized him, and he kicked the bucket, one more time: but this time, they buried him in ″a holy land″…

What’s next? Joan set off again, and on May 24th, she was taken prisoner by the English in Compiègne (Picardy)…

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