Because of the holiness in which she exuded, during her trial & imprisonment.
They didn't. She was not canonized until 1920.
She was burned on a stake in a fire and was burned to death because they had captured her and put her in jail. :(
The best known of these is Joan of Arc who was burned at the stake in 1431.
Joan of Arc was 19 years old when she was sold to the English by the Burgundians and was executed.
While she was fighting for the French, Joan of Arc was caught by their enemy; the English. The English put her on trial and charged her with being a witch. She was found guilty and burned at the stake. Soon after, the French defeated the English and won the war. A long time later, Joan of Arc was declared to be a saint by the Catholic Church.
After Joan of Arc was executed in 1431 the English were never able to regain their military dominance and were ultimately driven from France in 1450.
Joan was executed by being burned at the stake in Rouen, France in l43l.
Certainly Joan of Arc - in French: Jeanne d'Arc, burnt at the skate by the English.
A number of saints have been burned to death but the best known is, perhaps, Saint Joan of Arc.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1431. She was a young French woman who claimed to have received divine messages to support the French against the English during the Hundred Years' War. Joan of Arc was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
Saint Joan of Arc - However, she was executed for being a heretic, not a witch.
Joan was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, on May 30, 1431.
She was burned on a stake in a fire and was burned to death because they had captured her and put her in jail. :(
Saint Joan of Arc
People convicted of being witches (male and female) were usually killed. Burning, hanging, drowning, stoning and burning was the most popular. About 45,000 people were executed as witches in the Middle Ages and most were burned to death. Saint Joan of Arc was burned to death as a witch by the English and later Canonized as a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
The best known of these is Joan of Arc who was burned at the stake in 1431.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by the English on May 30, 1431.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake on the 30th May 1431.