 "Joan of Arc-3" 
Twenty-five years after her death, the Church retried her case, and
she was pronounced innocent. In 1920 she was canonized by Pope Benedict XV; her
traditional feast day is May 30, the day of her execution. Joan of Arc has been widely
depicted in literature and art. She has been the subject of plays such as Die Jungfrau von
Orleans (1801) by Friedrich von Schiller; Saint Joan (1923) by George Bernard Shaw; and
L'Alouette (The Lark, 1953) by Jean Anouilh. The French composer Arthur Honegger wrote of
her in his oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake, which was first performed in 1938. The
American writer Mark Twain wrote the biography The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
(1896), and Voltaire commemorated her in his narrative poem La pucelle d'Orleans (The Maid
of Orleans, 1756).
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