ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 4th of February WELCOME! SAINT JOAN OF VALOIS, QUEEN OF FRANCE ➡️ More information about St Joan of Valois Saint Joan of Valois was daughter of King Lewis XI [Louis XI] and Charlotte of Savoy, born in 1464. Her low stature and deformed body rendered her the object of her father’s aversion, who notwithstanding married her to Lewis duke of Orleans, his cousin-german, in 1476. HER FATHER DID NOT LIKE HER BECAUSE SHE WAS DISABLED She obtained his life of her brother Charles VIII who had resolved to put him to death for rebellion. Yet nothing could conquer his antipathy against her, from which she suffered every thing with patience, making exercises of piety her chief occupation and comfort. SHE MADE EXERCISES OF PIETY HER CHIEF OCCUPATION AND COMFORT Her husband coming to the crown of France in 1498, under the name of Lewis XII having in view an advantageous match with Anne, the heiress of Brittany, and the late king’s w...