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Whose voices did Joan of Arc begin to hear at a young age?

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At a young age she began to hear "voices" Ñthose of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. When she was about 16, the voices exhorted her to bear aid to the dauphin, later King Charles VII , then kept from the throne by the English in the Hundred Years War .

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