n weren't allowed to
             go to school, so where did she learn to read and write? She probably learned all of this
             when she went to church, because back then the priest knew how to read and write. She
             learned a lot of stuff from her father like farming and attending to the herds. From her
             mother she learned how to sew linen cloths and to spin.
             Joan was a deeply religious Christian, who prayed more than twice a day, because
             time back then was divided into canonical hours. Prayer divided the day.5 The time went
             by matins at sunrise, Prime one sixth the time between sunrise and noon, Tierce one half
             that time, sexte midday, none, a sixth of the time between noon and sunset, and complaine,
             the time for sunset prayers. As you can see she had to pray during all these times.6 People
             also said that while she was attending to the herds, she would leave and go to the church to
             hear the mass. Every year she would go and confess all the sins that she had done to
             Messire Guillaume Front. He was the parish priest at the church of St. Remy De
             When she was the age of thirteen, she started to hear a voice while she was
             working in her father's garden.8 When she heard it, she was very afraid. The voice was
             coming from the side of the church but with it came also a bright light. The voice that she
             heard was the voice of St. Michael, he was called the Archangel and the protector of
             France.9 He said that she will hear voices later on from St. Catherine, a
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