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Joan of Arc

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God forgive us: we have burned a saint.
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An anonymous English soldier after the execution, as quoted in Fools, Martyrs, Traitors : The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World (199) by Lacey Baldwin Smith, p. 11

 
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