Case file · Apparition / miracle
Joan of Arc's voices
Joan of Arc said that at about 13, in her father's garden at Domrémy, she first heard a voice with a light, later identified as Saint Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret.
1425 CE · 48.44, 5.67 · status: account
The account
The voices told her to save France; she lifted the siege of Orléans in 1429. Her trial testimony of 1431 is the main source.
The sceptical view
Proposed medical explanations include epilepsy or migraine; none can be proven.