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Principled or Pragmatic Foundations for the Freedom of Conscience?*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2015
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Joan in her last moments had wonderful contrition and broke out into words so Catholic and devout that they moved everyone in that great throng, including the English cardinal and many other Englishmen. She asked me to stay with her at the end and humbly begged me to go to a nearby church and bring her a cross, and I held it erect before her eyes, until her passing, so she could always and ceaselessly see the cross. In the middle of the flames, she never stopped confessing and crying out in aloud voice the holy name of Jesus Christ, or imploring most devoutly the help of the saints. As she expired and bowed her head, she professed the name of Jesus, a sign of the faith with which she was animated, just as we read of St. Ignatius and many holy martyrs.
The executioner came to me and my associate, Brother Martin Lavenu, immediately after the burning, impelled by a wonderful and terrible penitence. It was as if he despaired of receiving pardon from God after what he had done to her, who, as he said, was such a holy woman. He also affirmed that although he had several times put the wood and coals upon her entrails and heart, he could in no way consume her heart or reduce it to cinders; and at this he was amazed, as if it were an evident miracle.
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