ep30 Joan of Arc

Was not proclaimed a saint for more than 400 years after her death? A man amasses a fortune to the purchase of worthless currency. Can you imagine that? This is a Vensy McCarry once more friends, and I'm back with you on this station to give you more odd facts, strange happenings, and out of the ordinary news stories.

We'll all return in just one and a half minutes with the first one, so, leave your dial turned right there, will you please? Thank you. It's kind to Gus Hildebrand and Fred Schmidt of Northwood, Iowa.

Gus and Fred were driving along in their car over a snow-covered road, road, the snow made it the rather rough going and then suddenly their cars skidded and turned over. Goss, you hurt? No, I guess I'm all right. You? Yeah.

Was that close? Say. You two fellas all right? Yeah, we're okay here. Boy, you're sure lucky. That's no bad stuff. Mr. Don't say anything at all against that snow. In the backseat of this car, 200 pounds of dynamite and 100 dynamite caps.

The snow may have turned us over, but it cushioned that dynamite and kept it from blownness to kingdom come. Yes, sir, Fred Schmidt and Gus Hildebrand turned over in their car because of the heavy snow in an accident that might have killed them.

Yet the same snow saved their lives, can you imagine that? Of course you know who the patron saint of France is. Yes, indeed, it's that intrepid warrior made of Olia, Jean-Dock, Joan of Arc. But just how long would you guess Joan of Arc has been, Saint Joan?

Go ahead, just make a guess. A hundred years? Two hundred? sound strange to you, but Joan of Arc, who lived during the 15th century and was burned at the stake on May 30th in the year 1431, was not made a saint until she was canonized by Pope Benedict the Fifteen in the year 1920, almost five hundred years after her death. Can