洛林(Lorraine)不在圣经中——但圣女贞德出生在那里

  • 洛林并未出现在圣经中。它源自洛泰林吉亚(Lotharingia),即查理曼大帝之孙洛泰尔(Lothair)在九世纪建立的王国。
  • 这一领土在千年间反复遭到争夺、分割和吞并——在一个人的一生中,它可能先是法国的,然后是德国的,最后又变回法国的。
  • 圣女贞德(Joan of Arc)于1412年左右出生在洛林的栋雷米(Domrémy)的一个农户家庭,她不识字。她说自己从十三岁左右就开始听到声音。
  • 她见到了王储,前往奥尔良,并见证了查理七世在兰斯加冕。次年她被俘,经教会法庭审判,于1431年在鲁昂被处以火刑,年仅十九岁。
  • 二十五年后,判决被推翻,她于1920年被封为圣徒——每当机构表现得过于自信时,这段历史都值得铭记。

Lorraine is not in the Bible. It is a region of France, and its most famous daughter was a teenage girl who said she heard voices and was burned for it. Where the name comes from Lorraine descends from Lotharingia — the kingdom of Lothair, a grandson of Charlemagne, carved out when the Frankish empire was divided in the ninth century. Over the next thousand years the territory was fought over, partitioned, annexed and returned more times than is easy…

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