Joan of Arc burned at the stake
05/30/1431 AD killed by
Tied to a tall pillar at the Vieux-Marché in Rouen, she asked two of the clergy, Fr Martin Ladvenu and Fr Isambart de la Pierre, to hold a crucifix before her.
An English soldier also constructed a small cross that she put in the front of her dress.
After she died, the English raked back the coals to expose her charred body so that no one could claim she had escaped alive. They then burned the body twice more, to reduce it to ashes and prevent any collection of relics, and cast her remains into the Seine River.
The executioner, Geoffroy Thérage, later stated that he "greatly feared to be damned for he had burned a holy woman."
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Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc, The Maid of Orléans) Heroine of France for he...
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