Re: Jeanne D'Arc - 30 May 1431

that's beautiful!

What a fascinating person she was...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc


""The trial record demonstrates her remarkable intellect. The transcr*ipt's most famous exchange is an exercise in subtlety. "Asked if she knew she was in God's grace, she answered: 'If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.'"[40] The question is a scholarly trap. Church doctrine held that no one could be certain of being in God's grace. If she had answered yes, then she would have convicted herself of heresy. If she had answered no, then she would have confessed her own guilt. Notary Boisguillaume would later testify that at the moment the court heard this reply, "Those who were interrogating her were stupefied."" Tweet