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Have you ever prayed in a St. Joan of Arc Parish? It’s her feast day on Monday. St. Joan of Arc has 2,100 families at its northeast Valley parish (38th St./Greenway Rd.) plus preschool students.

PARISH FACTS:

• Offers an online “Parish Pride Store” featuring decals, mugs, apparel and more.
• Established July 12, 1979. It was one of only five parishes Bishop James S. Rausch established in his four years at the helm of the Phoenix Diocese. He didn’t live long enough to see it dedicated on St. Joan of Arc’s feast day in 1982. (St. James in Glendale, the first established after his death, was named in his honor).
• A permanent sanctuary was dedicated in late 1999.
• Offers daily Mass in the morning and 6 p.m. Mondays in English and Wednesdays in Spanish.

SCHOOL FACTS:

• Offers two- and three-day options for 3-year-olds
• Offers three- and four-day options for 4-year-olds

SAINT FACTS:

• Rallied and army and won many battles freeing the cities of France.
• She was treated most shamefully by clergy before her death, according to her profile posted for Phoenix’s St. Joan of Arc parishioners.
• She was acquitted 23 years after being burned at the stake at age 19.
• Name means “God is gracious,” according to another bio.