In the market-place at Rouen, English soldiers fastened Joan to a stake surrounded by a great pils of twigs. It is told that a soldier handed Joan a wooden cross, and it is also told that Joan had cried out for someone to hold a cross at her eye level, or that she stared at a cross that was mounted on top of a church while she burned. Then a priest, standing near the stake, read to her the prayers for the dying. Then one of the soldiers held a torch to the twigs and they started to catch fire. When the cruel flames burst out around her, Joan's last word to utter was "Jesus."
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