Joan Was Triumphant!

Hero.

Servant of the Savior, so the savior of France:

Joan.

Here in the play Triumphant, her mother (Isabella) learns of Joan’s calling. Saints Catherine and Margret are there, but Isabella cannot see or hear them.

Triumphant Act I, Scene 2

Isabelle: Joan?

Joan: Mother.

Isabelle: You are staring at that tree again.

Joan: Not the tree, but the beautiful ladies in the tree.

Isabelle: I cannot see anything.

Joan: I can.

Isabelle: I know. Am I too sinful? Or too . . .

Joan: . . .sane?

Isabelle: Perhaps. It is hard.

Catherine: Your mother is a good woman.

Margret: She wishes to believe that God is good.

Joan: Mother, do you wish to know what they say of you?

Isabelle: Not really. Not unless I must know. Such knowledge. It seems dangerous.

Joan: Knowledge is dangerous.

Catherine: You are called.

Margret: You are chosen.

Joan: A calling, Mother; now that is dangerous. No good ever came of being the chosen one.

Margret: God has sent us to tell you that you will be used of Him to be the savior of France.

Catherine: There is no other way.

Margret: God has a friend in court that will help you.

Isabelle: What are they saying to you?

Margret: Do not be afraid.

Catherine: You will make the Dauphin King though you cannot make him a man.

Isabelle: Joan? What is it?

Joan: I am the savior of France. I am the savior of France. I am the savior of France.

Isabelle: You. You are a girl.

Joan: Wasn’t the mother of God a girl?

Isabelle: You are a poor . . . no noble will listen.

Joan: Wasn’t Peter our first pope a fisherman?

Isabelle: I am afraid.

Joan: I am not. God is with us.

Isabelle: I believe this much: God is with you.

Joan: God is with France.

Isabelle: If France has you . . .perhaps God is with France.

(A light shines on Joan alone)