JOAN OF ARC | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 41.

JOAN OF ARC.

JOAN OF ARC has been made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Last Sunday the pope entered the basilica for the purpose of venerating the new saint. We trust that the Roman Church will never object to any of the history connected with the burning of that remarkable woman. It would hardly do to teach in the public schools that she was condemned to death by the Roman Catholic Inquisition, an account of which, by the way, we must also take out of our histories. But perhaps we may be allowed to meekly state that Joan was condemned by the Inquisition to be burned at the stake for the serious offense of wearing pants, contrary to the rules of the Catholic Church; and also the charge that she had allied herself with evil spirits. No doubt the Board of Education of San Francisco would order this expunged from the text-books, on the ground that it was sectarian teaching.—The Occident.