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The Perils of a Warrior-Saint; A Divine Mission, Treachery and Execution at the Stake
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Ed Gernon is a middle-aged man who has grown to love an illiterate
French teenager from the Dark Ages.
"There's something about this girl that stretches across time and
captivates your attention," said the filmmaker, whose "Joan of Arc"
airs Sunday and Tuesday at 9 on CBS. "That's been true of everybody
who comes into her life. She's incredible."
Gernon said his miniseries, opening on the anniversary of the day
that the teenaged Joan was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in
1920, attempts to answer one major question: "Who is the person
behind the myth?"
Jeanne D'Arc was not a myth, of ...
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