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St. Joan of Arc — The Saint Officially Burned Over a Change of Clothes
She led an army, crowned a king, and turned a losing war around — and the official record shows she was executed over a change of clothes.
In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast telling real saint stories in plain, everyday language, we tell the true story of St. Joan of Arc — a nineteen-year-old peasant girl who broke the siege of Orléans, crowned Charles VII king of France, and was burned at the stake after a politically rigged heresy trial. We separate fact from centuries-old legend with a round of True or Legend?, including one detail almost nobody remembers correctly: by…
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