same year. The Order of the Annunciade was ratified shortly before the death of its Foundress, which occurred on February 4, 1505. Death interrupted her efforts to found a male branch of her Order. Although she made her religious vows, the Duchess of Berry continued to reside in her castle at Bourges until her death. She was buried wearing a religious habit and a ducal crown. Even though Joan was accorded a cult of reverence right after her death and was considered a saint, yet it was only in 1742 that Pope Benedict XIV celebrated her formal beatification. She was proclaimed a saint by Pope Pius XII in 1950. Joan’s earthly remains were desecrated and burned by Protestants on May 22, 1562. On May 23, 1515, already after the death of Joan de Valois, Pope Leo X gave his approval to the second edition of the Rule. Just like its first edition, this Rule was also written by Fr. Gilbert Nicolas who did so with the goal of joining together the Order of the Annunciade and the Conceptionist Sis22 Posthumous mask of St. Joan de Valois
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