use she said the voices had not told her to stop wearing them and she would continue to do so until she was told otherwise. She also said that wearing men’s clothing protected her from being sexually abused by her jailers (www.netsrq.com). Joan of Arc was sentenced to burning at the stake after a fourteen-month interrogation (www.netsrq.com). Joan was accused of breaking several laws of the Church (www.la-pucelle.de). The most serious crime that she was being tried for was the claim that she received direct inspiration from God. The church thought that this was a refusal to accept the church hierarchy (www.encyclopedia.com). At the end of her trial she recanted. For this she received life imprisonment. The following day she retracted her abjuration at Saint-Quen Cemetery. On May 28 she was retried as a relapsed heretic in the secular court. On May 30, 1431 she was burned at the stake in the center of the Old Market Place at Rouen (www.millersv.edu). Charles VII did not come to rescue her (www.netsrq.com). When she was burned at the stake she was wearing a paper hat that read, “Heretic, Relapsed, Apostate, Idolatress” (www.mcs.drexel.edu). She was nineteen years old at the time of her death (www.netsrq.com). A second trial was held in 1456. She was then announced innocent (www.netsrq.com). The first trial was declared null-and-void (www.la-pucelle.de). Unfortunately the sentence could not be taken back. The Catholic Church in France beatified her in 1909 (www.netsrq.com). This recognized the things she had done that in the end cost her life (www.millersv.com). Pope Benedict XV canonized, or recognized her as a saint, in 1920 (www.netsrq.com). She has been used in many types of art and literature since her death (www.encyclopedia.com). Bibliography“Catholic Online Saints: St. Joan of Arc”. Catholic Online, 1997. 1 page.http://www.catholic.org/saints/saints/joanarc.html (7 October 19...
