News traveled quickly in the days we were stationed in Rouen, and word of her military successes and her spiritual calling preceded her by many months; it was as if horses ran faster, and people wrote and spoke more clearly then, aided somehow from above. I believed in such heavenly intervention then, and I still do now. It was our biggest difference, Frémin and I, for Frem was the rare soldier who didn’t believe in God; it was clear he too fought for love, for life, for land, but never for the … [Read more...] about Young Soldier’s Diary, May 1431, A Knot of Towers That Was a Church Before the War