"Who in the moment of victory remains inaccessible to vanity and hate, who in the midst of popular enthusiasm lives in humility and prayer, who in the universal crush of ambition covets neither profit nor honours."
— Joan of Arc

January 1, 1970

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Jean Gerson, scholar, educator, reformer and poet, and Chancellor of the University of Paris. Gerson was also one of the first individuals to publicly defend Joan of Arc and proclaim her supernatural volition as authentic. This statement he made is inscribed in the Cole Gallery in Ruffner Hall at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Joan of Arc is the patron saint of Longwood University and featured in two prominent statues on campus.