Hello! My name is Patrick Price.  I am now 24 years old as I type this.  I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with my 2 older sisters and mother. I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life. I attended Catholic grade school (Kearns-St. Ann's Grade School) and high school (Judge Memorial Catholic H.S., class of ' '97), and I couldn't have asked for a better education. I'm currently still in college.

I have a weird connection with Joan of Arc - When an uncle of mine was stationed in Nancy, France, with the Red Cross, in the 1960's, his daughter(my cousin), then a teenager, was out for a motorcycle ride in the French country with her boyfriend. About forty or forty-five miles away, they stumbled upon a remote village with rustic looking buildings, and they stopped to look around. A caretaker of one of the houses there ran out with a portrait of a teenage girl that he said looked exactly like my cousin. He sat them down and told them all about this girl. He even noted that the name of my cousin (Jane) was similar to the name of this girl and thought that was significant. The village they came upon was probably Domremy. And the caretaker of the village thought my cousin was a reincarnation of Joan of Arc!

My favorite things to do are to camp, hike, build models, listen to music, go to movies, hang out with my friends and family, and read(sci-fi, adventure, etc....and even the (last but definitely not least) the bible), and study religion and history. I have lots of tastes in music, when I'm not playing it on my clarinet. I like classical rock(Pink Floyd, U2, etc..), classical music(Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky), religious music(especially chant), ethnic music, 30's swing like Glenn Miller, and various popular music, depending on the artist.

Now, why am I here, you ask? Why am I an unofficial Saint Joan nut? Well, for a couple things, as I mentioned before I'm in love with my religion, and I also love studying religious, medieval, and military history. More specifically, it began with the CBS miniseries.  I knew who Saint Joan of Arc was, but I hadn't been interested in her that much...I thought it was amazing that a 17 year-old girl could successfully lead an army, but I thought nothing more of it. Until the CBS movie.  That really got me going. In the month after the movie first aired, I'd watched the movie several times(besides, I was on summer vacation... lol)!  But, even before I watched it the second time, I'd eaten up everything I could find on the internet about her, and sadly enough, I found out how innacurate the movie was.  As you can see, that didn't take away from my love for the movie. But I'd become hooked. I had to find out more about Joan. I went to the public library and checked a book out by Regine Pernoud.  I couldn't put the book down until I got to the end of the narrative on Joan's life.  And now I am an unofficial Joan of Arc nut.