Having thus accomplished, better than any man could have done, the mission God had entrusted to her, with equal courage and constancy she received the unworthy reward meted out to her by the justice of men. Taken by the Burgundians, she was shamefully betrayed for money into the hands of the English, who were to wreak their vengeance by the cruel death of the virgin. She was taken to Rouen, put on trial, and made the object of all kinds of charges-except that of having been unfaithful to her vow of chastity. The case was tried before most corrupted judges, the innocent virgin was condemned to be burnt, and underwent this punishment with fortitude on May 30, 1431, before a dense multitude, with her eyes fixed on the crucifix, while she offered up the most fervent prayers and implored pardon for the authors of her death. Four-and-twenty years after her death the Sovereign Pontiff, Calixtus III., entrusted to the Bishop of Rheims and others the duty of reopening the case, with the result that the first sentence was annulled, and the reputation of the Servant of God restored. A large body of evidence having been collected in the dioceses of Orleans, Verdun, and St. Diodate, and forwarded to the Sacred Congregation of Rites, His Holiness Pope Leo XIII., of happy memory, on January 27, 1894, decided that the Cause should be introduced. The Apostolic Processes followed, and the validity of these having been proved, the Sacred Congregation of Rites entered on the discussion of the heroicity of the virtues of the Venerable Servant of God, first in an ante-preparatory session, held at the residence of the Most Reverend Cardinal Lucidus Maria Parocchi, of good memory, on December 17, 1900; then at the preparatory session at the Vatican, on March 17 of last year; and finally at the general session in presence of our Holy Lord Pope Pius X., held on November 17 of the same year. Whereupon, when the question was proposed by the most Reverend Cardinal Dominick Ferrata, Relator of the Cause, "As to whether the evidence was clear with regard to the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity toward God and our neighbor, and the cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance, and the others connected with them, in the heroic degree, in the case and to the effect under discussion," the Most Reverend Cardinals of the Rites and the Fathers Consultors severally gave their opinion. After weighing these votes our Most Holy Lord Pope Pius X. refrained for the moment from giving his final judgment, exhorting all present to pray for divine light for him in such a grave matter. But to-day, sacred to God the Saviour manifesting Himself by a star to the nations, and at the same time the birthday of the Venerable Servant of God Joan, destined of old to be as a flame flashing in the earthly and the heavenly Jerusalem, His Holiness, after religiously celebrating the Holy Sacrifice, has entered this noble hall of the Vatican and taken his seat on the Pontifical throne, has summoned the Most Reverend Cardinals Seraphirus Cretoni, Prefect, and Dominick Ferrata, Relator of the Cause, together with the Reverend Father Alexander Verde, promoter of the Faith, and me the undersigned Secretary, and in our presence has solemnly decreed: The evidence concerning the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity toward God and our neighbor, and the cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance, with the others connected with them, as practised in a heroic degree by the Venerable Servant of God, Joan of Arc, is so clear in the case and to the effect under discussion that it is lawful now to proceed further, namely, to the discussion of the four miracles. 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