@me474
You couldn't have picked a worse example than Joan of Arc. The very reason why she had to be tried by the church as a heretic, was because the support she had was so overwhelming, the claims of a 19 year old girl about God telling her to liberate France, was an actual threat to the claims of the British crown. The mythos surrounding the girl was so great, the guy who executed her was terrified, thinking he was going to hell for killing a saint, and the backlash for her execution was so big, that after her retrial, the bishop responsible for her execution was excommunicated, his remains being buried in an unmarked tomb without the fanfare his position would have demanded, as if the French population still hadn't forgiven him.
You couldn't have picked a worse example than Joan of Arc. The very reason why she had to be tried by the church as a heretic, was because the support she had was so overwhelming, the claims of a 19 year old girl about God telling her to liberate France, was an actual threat to the claims of the British crown. The mythos surrounding the girl was so great, the guy who executed her was terrified, thinking he was going to hell for killing a saint, and the backlash for her execution was so big, that after her retrial, the bishop responsible for her execution was excommunicated, his remains being buried in an unmarked tomb without the fanfare his position would have demanded, as if the French population still hadn't forgiven him.