Joan was accused of being a witch and a heretic due to the voices she heard and visions she witnessed, but the crime that condemned her to death was that of wearing men’s clothing.
Cranmer’s execution in 1556 for heresy was intended to act as way to discredit Protestantism.
John Rogers became the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I after he was burnt at the stake.
On the 21st March 1556, Thomas Cranmer was executed for heresy.
Pope Pius V issued the Papal bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England for heresy.
On the 30th May 1431, Joan of Arc was executed by being burned at the stake.
On the 18th March 1314 Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was executed on the orders of King Philip IV.
On the 15th July 1834 the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, otherwise known as the Spanish Inquisition, was disbanded.
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