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Joan of Arc: Death
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In Joan's time the executioner had three methods of easing the death of those who were to be burned. The executioner could either slit the victim's throat or strangle the victim with a rope or place green wood around the feet of the victim to cause them to die of asphixiation from smoke inhalation. According to the Chief of the Fire Department, death by smoke inhalation occurs within 10 minutes or less.
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Through her unfamiliarity with the technicalities of theology, Joan was trapped into making a few damaging statements. When she refused to retract the assertion that it was the saints of God who had commanded her to do what she had done, she was condemned to death as a heretic, sorceress, and adulteress, and burned at the stake on May 30, 1431. She was nineteen years old. Some thirty years later, she was exonerated of all guilt and she was ultimately canonized in 1920, making official what the people had known for centuries. Her feast day is May 30.
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(NOTE FROM VIRGINIA FROHLICK: No the height of the state in this depiction of Joan's death was NOT life size. Joan's pier was in fact built much higher than is shown by the museum's depiction. The museum was forced to keep the height down because of the constraints of the room's ceiling.)
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[P]erformed in Orléans four years after Joan of Arc's death. The surviving version appears to be a revision from around 1450. God and several saints play major roles in this sprawling drama of more than a hundred speaking parts.
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The next day, May 29, Joan is believed to have charged Cauchon with the responsibility of her death. She was allowed to receive confession and communion one last time, and the next day would be her last. The English could now do what they wanted with her. With her death, the English hoped, would ... be the death of the dream of a united France.
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