Gators & Ghosts’ NOLA Blog Archive

One spirit with the most enduring mark on the city of New Orleans belongs to a woman who lived in the early 1400s, nearly 300 years before Iberville and Bienville staked their claim of this land for the French – Joan of Arc. Long hailed as the patron saint of NOLA, the ancient woman was born in Orléans, France, a sister city and namesake of New Orleans. We celebrate Joan of Arc each year on January 6, which also happens to be the start of the Carnival season, but who is this French woman so revered in a city thousands of miles from her birthplace?

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