From my rightful marriage I brought into this world a daughter
to whom I gave the sacraments of baptism and confirmation.
I raised her to fear God and respect the church
in so far as her age and simple state allowed.
Though she never thought nor plotted nor did anything against the faith
envious people wished to hurt her
and her parents and the people
tried her for her faith.
They falsely accused her of many crimes
condemned her unfairly and burned her at the stake.
My name is Joan, I'm 19.
Swear to tell the truth.
I swear.
<- Where were you bapitized? - At the church in Domremy.
<Who schooled you in the faith?
Mother taught me the "Our Father," "Hail Mary" and Creed.
<Say the "Our Father."
Grant me confession I'll say it then.
<What did you do at home?
I worked in the house not in the fields.
<Did you learn a trade?
To spin and sew.
We hereby confine Joan
to her cell in Rouen Castle.
I refuse that ruling.
<You've already tried to escape several times.
A prisoner has that right.
If you ask me to say something I swear not to say.
It will be perjury.
<You must tell your judge the truth.
Beware of calling yourself my judge.
- You must take an oath once again. - The law requires yet another?
Will you swear, simply and absolutely?
- There is no need. - You must swear to tell the truth.
I'll tell the truth, but not all of it.
That casts suspicion upon you.
Ask me no more.
<You must swear!
I won't tell everything.
I'm sent by God and have no business here.
Send me back to God from whom I came.
<Kneel.
I heard in the church. There was light all around.
There was always a light.
The third time I recognizied the voice of an angel.
It told me to lift the siege at Orleans.
First I was to go to Vaucouleurs The voice told me what would happen.
How were you dressed on leaving Vaucouleurs?
- As a man. - Who told you to?
I won't say.
Did you hear this voice often?
Everyday. I need to hear it.
<- Did you hear it yesterday? - Yes.
<At what time?
In the morning. I don't know what time.
<- What were you doing? - I was sleeping. It woke me.
<Was it in your room?
No, in the castle.
<Did you thank it and kneel before it?
I have thanks and joined my hands.
<What did this voice tell you?
To speak to you boldly.
Beware, for I am sent by God.
You endanger yourself.
Did this voice say not to tell everything?
I have revelations about the king that I won't reveal.
<Did the voice forbid it?
If so, what objection would you have?
Did the voice come from God?
I believe it did.
I fear displeasing it more than i fear anwsering you.
Could the truth displease God?
The voice told me things for the king's ears not yours.
It told me much for the good of my king I would like to tell him..
Can't you make the voice tell the king directly?
God so willing. I would be glad.
<Why does this voice not speak to the king as it...
..did to you?
I don't know if it's God will. Without him, I could do nothing.
Are you in God's grace?
If so, may he keep me there. If not, may he place me there.
<At home, did you play
in the fields with the other girls?
<Yes.
Do you recall a certain tree near your village?
Yes, near Domremy, the Fairies Tree.
<It's by a fountain from which the ill drink.
<We hung flowers on the tree
and sang and danced
but I never saw fairies in the tree.
What about elsewhere?
Not that I know of.
Take her away.
You may catch her in error but you can't burn her.
- Why not? - She's being badly tried. She has no one to defend her.
She will burn.
How have you been since the other day?
- You can see for yourself. <- Have you heard the voice since then?
- Yes. <- Here in the room during your questioning?
- Is this a trial? <- It serves as one.
- I heard it. <- What did it tell you?
I only understood later in my room.
<What did it say there?
I asked for advice about your questions.
<Did it advise you?
On some points, yes.
On others, I'm not at leave to say. If I do, I lose its guarantee.
When Our Lord grants me leave I will speak. Then I'll be guaranteed.
Is it an angel's voice or is it directly from God?
It's the voice of St. Catherine and St. Margaret
they wear beautiful crowns.
<How do you know it's those two?
They began to guide me seven years ago.
Do they both wear the same cloth?
Some revelations are only for the king of France.
<Are they the same age?
I don't know.
Do they speak in unison?
St. Michael has comforted me as well.
When did you first hear his voice?
I didn't say his voice. I said he comforted me.
<Did you see St. Michael first or the other two?
St. Michael, accompanied by heavenly angels.
<You saw St. Michael and the others in physical form?
I saw them with my eyes as I see you.
What proof do you have these revelations are from God?
Believe me as you will.
<When you first saw the king
was an angel above him?
- If so, I didn't see it. <- Was there any light?
Yes, more than 50 torches. Not all light is for you.
<How could the king give credence to this?
- He recieved a sign. <- What sign?
I won't say.
- Where did you get the sword you carry - At Vaucouleurs.
<Didn't you have another?
I found a sword behind the altar in the church of St. Catherine.
How did you know it was there?
It was buried and rusted. It had five crosses on it.
My voices told me.
<- What blessing did you invoke or have invoked on it? - None at all.
<Did you put it on the alter for good fortune?
- No. <- Which do you love more: your flag or your sword?
My flag. 40 times over.
- Who carried the flag? <- I did, so as to kill no one.
I've never killed.
<How many soldiers did the king give you?
12,000 men.
Did you tell them before the battle of Orleans
that you alone would be hit by stones and arrows?
I said they were certain to lift the siege.
In planting the first ladder I was struck in the neck by an arrow.
<Did you know you'd be wounded?
St. Catherine and St Margaret had told me.
Did St. Catherine and St Margaret speak to you at the Fairies' Tree
That was previously mentioned?
I don't recall.
What about at the fountain?
Yes, I heard them there.
(Dear Lord, if you love me)
(tell me how to answer these men of the church.)
Where are you going? What are you doing here?
You know every well.
<''You here at Orleans return to your country. King of England
<if you do not do this, I, a chieftain of war
<will drive your men wherever I find them, from France
<If they will not obey I'll have them slain.
<I am sent here by God, body for body, to drive you out of France.
Do not think that God will give you the kingdom of France''.
Do you recongize this?
"War chief" and "body for body" were not in my letter
which was shown to many in my party.
<What will happen to your party?
Within seven years the English will lose all of France.
in a God-sent victory to the French.
I say this now so you'll remember it then.
What year and day?
I won't say.
<How can you tell if your visions are men or women?
They show me by their faces.
- Do they have hair? <- Perhaps.
Long, flowing hair?
I don't even know if they have bodies.
<How could they speak without bodies?
I rely on God. The voice is soft and speaks the language of France.
Do you wear certain rings?
You have one of them, Bishop Return it to me.
The English took the other but show me the one you have.
Who gave you the ring the English have?
My parents, "Jesus and Mary" is written on it.
<Isn't it true you healed someone with one of these rings?
No, not with a ring.
Didn't your saints make you a promise?
That's not part of this trial.
<Did they promise to get you out of prison?
- Yes. - This every prison?
I told you I will not tell you all. One day I will be saved.
My slayers will go before me.
I would die without the revelations that comfort me everyday.
What did you do with your mandrake?
I have none. I never did.
<- Wasn't there some in your village? - Yes.
<What is mandrake good for?
They say it brings money. I don't believe it.
<I obey my conscience.
<Why did you put "Jesus and Mary" and a cross on your letters?
So the party member to whom I wrote wouldn't do what I wrote.
What arms did you place in the church of St. Denis?
A sword and Armor as is customary after one is wounded
- For adoration? - No.
<When you made your banner
<did your men have others made resembling your own?
Some did.
<Did you not tell them it would bring them luck?
No. I told them to fight boldly.
Did you bless the banners or have them blessed with holy water?
If it was done it wasn't on my orders.
<Did you not parade them
around a church or alter?
No, and I saw no one else do it.
<Did you have any images made of you?
One, showing me kneeling and presenting a letter to the king.
Why do you look to your ring before attacking?
To honor my parents who gave it to me.
<Did you not don rich gowns of sumptous fabric and gold cloth?
<Isn't it blasphemy to claim it was God's command?
I have never blasphemed against God or his saints .
<Do you know if your party prays and has mass said for you?
If they pray for me they do no evil.
Do those of your party fervently believe you are sent by God?
I don't know. They know in their hearts
whether they do or not I am sent by God.
<What of those who kissed your feet and clothes?
Many did so, but I tried to stop them.
The poor came because I found no disfavor with them.
<Did towns women touch their rings to yours?
Many women touched my hands and rings
but I don't know why.
Did you partake of the sacraments in the towns you passed through?
<- Yes. - Dressed as a man?
Yes, and unarmed.
Did you take the bishop's horse to Senlis?
I paid for it but I returned it, it was worthless.
- How old was the baby you visited at Lagny? - Three days old.
They brought its lifeless body to the alter where I was in prayer.
<Don't the townspeople claim you brought it back to life?
I never heard that.
What did you do at Charitè-sur-Loire?
I had the town attacked.
<Why did you not enter since God commanded you to do so?
Who told you he did?
At the Rheims coronation why was your flag flown
more than those of other captains?
It had shared in the toil it was right to honor it.
Take her back to her cell.
There's too much hubbub here!
Two assessors, a surrogate, a clerk, a vicar of the inquisition .
- And the others? - I'll do without them.
But make sure they don't leave town.
You have no jurisdiction here.
Did you know you'd be captured?
My voices told me I must be and that God would help me.
But they did not say when. If I'd know, I wouldn't have gone.
If your voices had told you where you'd be captured
you wouldn't have gone?
Not willingly, but I'd have obeyed
You had a horse?
<- Yes. - Who gave you the horse?
<The king. He gave me seven.
Did your king give you riches besides those horses?
A bit of money for the war.
>What sign did you give your king as you approached?
You won't get it out of me. Ask him.
Did God give him the sign?
An angel gave it to him.
The same angel as before or a different one?
Always the same one. He's never misled me.
<Not even when you were captured?
My capture must please Our Lord, so it's for the best.
How could he mislead me when he comforts me every day?
This is, through St. Catherine and St. Margaret
Did you promise your two saints to remain a virgin?
Yes.
Weren't you told that if you didn't you'd lose your confidence
and the voices would depart?
I wasn't told that.
If you married, do you think you'd hear your voices?
I don't know. I rely on my Lord.
<Was it right to leave home
Without your parents' leave?
Even if I had a hundred parents, I would still have followed God's call.
Did your voices say to tell your parents?
They left it up to me.
<Did they not call you "daughter of God" or "daughter of the church"?
They called me "Joan the Maid, daughter of God" several times.
Joan, enough lies. You're not a virgin maid.
I know I am. If you don't believe me, too bad.
You are not God's but the devil's!
I belong to Our Lord Jesus Christ and always have.
<Have her examined.
These women examined her and say she's a virgin.
Yes, that's what gives her strength.
<How did the angel prove to the king you were from God?
- I promised not to tell. <- We order you to tell.
And perjure myself?
Did you promise St. Catherine not to?
I promised myself, for too many were pressing me.
But the sign was the crown the angel gave the king.
A symbol that he would take all of France.
>- What was the crown like? - It was made of gold and gems.
<Where did the angel take it?
Chinen Castle. The angel entered and I followed
I said, "Here is your sign, sire."
Did you hold this crown in your hands?
No.
<Did this angel come from heaven or from earth?
From heaven. That is by God's will.
<Did he walk in the door?
He walked.
Did everyone around the king see this angel?
I believe the archbishop and a few others saw him.
Some saw the crown, but not the angel.
<Did the angel leave you happy or afraid?
Not afraid. My soul would've glady gone with him.
Was this angel sent as God's reward for your virtue?
<Why you and not some other girl?
It pleased him to choose a plain girl as his intermediary.
Where did the angel obtain the crown?
I trust in God. I don't know.
<Did this crown smell good? Was it pretty?
<What have you to say about the lost glove
and cup they say you discovered.
Nothing.
Did you leap from Beaurevoir Tower
to kill yourself?
No, to escape being handed over to the English.
<Didn't you say you'd rather die
than be taken by the English?
I'd rather give my soul to God than be in English hands.
When you regained consciousness
did you not curse God's name?
Those who say so misunderstood.
<Do St. Catherine and St Margaret
always appear in light?
The light comes at the same time as the voice.
<Was there light when you heard the voice
in the castle but not in your room?
I heard the voice, but I don't recall
seeing a light nor my saints.
Did you not say it's dangerous for us to judge you?
Beware of judging me badly. It's my duty to tell you that.
What danger are we in?
My voices said
a great victory will save me here.
"Fear not martydom.
You will come to Paradise"
Prison has been martydom, and I don't know if there's greater suffering.
Would you escape right now?
If I saw the gates open and the English let me through.
I would know it was God's hand.
She won't fly off.
Do your saints hate the English?
They love what Our Lord loves and hate what he hates.
<Does God hate the English?
Whether he loves or hates them, I don't know.
I only know they'll be driven from France, or die here.
<Have you always obeyed your voices?
I've obeyed God's will expressed
through them as I understood it.
<Have you ever acted contrary to their commands?
Yes, when I lept from Beaurevoir. But seeing me in danger
they saved me from killing myself.
They always help in time of need. It's a sign they are good spirits.
Are there other signs as well?
St. Michael told me before the voices first spoke.
How was he dressed when he appeared to you.
I don't recall.
Was he naked?
Do you think God can't clothe him?
<- Did he have hair? - Why would it have been cut off?
How did you know it was him?
By the way he spoke and his angelic language.
<How did you know it was angelic language?
I was willing to believe it.
If the devil took the form of an angel how would you tell?
I doubted St. Michael at first.
<What convinced you on subsequent occasions?
I was a child the first time. Later he taught me a lot.
<What did he teach you?
Much of what he taught me is in that book.
Would you agree to dress as a woman?
Give me and I'll be gone. But it pleases God that I dress this way now.
<"Let woman not dress as man nor man as woman,"
says the Bible. "Who doth so is an afbomination
before the everlasting God".
I see no difference between them.
<Is there a crime or fault within you
which merits death?
No.
<What do you say to this dress?
<I won't wear it God willing.
But if I am to be condemned and must disrobe, I request,
a woman's gown and something for my head.
I'd sooner die than renounce what God had me do.
I know he won't let me fall
without coming to my aid with a miracle.
If you dress as a man by God's will,
why ask for a woman's gown in case of death?
If it's long, it will be enough.
Several times, you've asked to hear
mass for the holy days.
I wish to hear mass
and take communion for Easter.
Set aside that man's attire and you shall.
I'll neither hear mass not take communion for Easter.
Where is my party? Have they forgotten me?
Examine my answers.
If a reply is wrong, I won't say the opposite.
If the church say your voices are the devil's work
will you agree?
God and his church on high sent me to the king.
To that church I will answer for all I've done or will do.
Are you not a subject to the earthly church?
<It's pope, cardinals, bishops and other clergy?
Yes, but always serving God first.
Do your voices tell you to
disobey the earthly church?
They don't tell me to disobey.
I serve God first.
<''Joan says she has no intermediary with God.
<Takes refuge in him and his saints and not the judgement of the church.
Places herself above the ecclesiastics.
Sows falsehood and error.
Has committed crimes. Has acted seditiously
evilly and damnably.
<Has allowd others to worship her like a saint.
Says he was sent by God
even in matters of war and bloodshed.
<Gave the armor in which she was wounded
<to be used
as a church relic at St. Denis.
<Hid a sword
in the church of St. Catherine
in order to claim she found it by revelation.
Cast a spell on her ring, flag and sword
to assure victory over her enemies.
wore mandrake root.
in hopes of obtaining riches''.
I reject these false accustions with all my strength.
They are not based on your interrogation or my replies.
<''Joan claimed and claims to know the future and past
unsurping the attributes of God''
Let Paris and the University issue an opinion. I will not.
Why?
You proceeded without us. No one here can express an opinion.
<- This judgement by force and threat. - Be quiet!
I am not from your diocese and thus not your subject.
Joan should have had counsel.
I order you to stay.
No, Monsignor. I no longer wish to.
What's wrong? Where does it hurt?
<The bishop sent me food
<I ate it and fell ill.
You ate bad food on purpose, wretched girl!
<I did not.
Remove her chains at once.
I appreciate your concern for my salvation.
I feel I am in danger of dying.
<If you defy the church
we must withhold the rites we stand ready to give.
<Correct your life in the same measure that you fear for it.
Should I die in prison please bury me in holy ground.
It says in Matthew, "if he refuses the church
let him be to you as a publican and a pagan''.
Do you want a holy procession that you may recover?
I want the church and her people to pray for me.
Joan, you can appeal to the pope.
And choose to abide by the Holy Synod.
<You have the right.
What Holy Synod?
<At Basel. As many of its members favor you
as oppose you. It's my duty to tell you.
Submit to the Synod.
You alone can save yourself. There's still time.
Given this woman's hardened soul
and refusal to hear reason
she is to be solemnly admonished.
Read and I will answer.
I place my trust in God and love him with all my heart.
He is my judge and king of heaven and earth.
You are reprimanded for denying the church.
I believe in the church on earth
but I am accountable to God alone for my words and deeds.
<Have you no earthly judge? Not our holy father the pope?
Our Lord is my master.
If you refuse
to accept the church and believe its articles of faith
you will be declared a heretic and sentenced to burning.
The sight of flames won't change my words.
If the Holy Synod, pope and cardinals were here would you accept
and be subject to them? Would you be subject to the pope?
Take me to him and I will answer. Otherwise, I will not.
The trial records will be sent to him for judgement.
I don't know what you'll write. I want the pope to question me.
- Accept the church? - What is the church?
You are my enemy.
But if the Basel Synod's members are equally for and against me
then I will be subject to the Synod in Basel.
Who has spoken with this women since yesterday?
You write only what is against me not what is for me.
<Tell the truth regarding the points we mentioned.
Speak up!
<Tell the truth.
Quarter me and tear my soul from my body
but I'll not change my words. And if I do I'll say you forced me to.
Take her back.
<You believe in visions. Joan, return to the path of truth
I beg you
out of piety for you creator.
Joan, right your wrongs
<and you'll redeem your soul and save your body form destruction
from which God deigns to protect you.
If you do not your soul will be damned.
Look at my deeds and words.
Even in the fire I'll say nothing else.
And I'll stand by my testimony unto death.
France, they deceive you.
He who is king, thanks to a dishonored and defamed woman
is like her. And not him alone
but all those obedient to him.
Joan, your King of France has
turned heretic by listening to you.
I swear he is a good Christian and loves the church.
You acted against God and the faith.
You dress as a man Repent or you'll burn.
Your deeds and words
do you retract them?
I trust in God and the pope.
That will not do. The pope is too far away.
We again admonish you.
<Will you retract your words and deeds?
Since the woman won't speak we'll read the final sentence.
''With Christ and our faith before our eyes
that our judgement may come from his holy countenance
we declare you have greatly sinned against God''.
Joan, we take pity on you.
Retract what you've said. We'll turn you over to secular law.
I've done nothing wrong.
I believe in the articles of faith and the ten commandments.
I trust in the synod and pope and wish to believe what the church believes.
Recant!
With hardened heart
You've refused several times to yield to the church.
Recant!
<Recant!
''We therefore declare you
unyielding in your errors''
Recant!
I'll do as you wish.
Abjure and sign that paper. Do as it says and you'll go free.
You lie. I am a judge in matters of faith. I hope for her salvation, not her death
<- You insult me.
<''I, Joan, a miserable sinner"
<''of good heart and will
<return to the mother church.''
<''I confess I sinned''
<''and lied about revelations
<from God, St. Catherine and St, Margaret.''
<''I recant all my acts against the church''
- Must I sign? I need counsel. - Request it.
Do not speak to her!
If the church grants me counsel I'll sign and obey.
I ask to be placed in the church's custody.
No more delays. Sign or be burned at once!
I entrust myself to the conscience of my judges.
What do we do now that she's yielded?
Joan, the church forgives you.
But as penitence
for your foolhardy defiance
we condemn you to live out your life in prison on bread and water
crying for your sins and commiting no others.
In your prison not with with English.
Take her back.
Take her to the castle and dress her as a woman.
Who told you to take back your word?
You swore you wouldn't.
I never swore. You broke your promise so I dress as a man.
In women's clothes I was beaten and trampled.
An English Lord tried to rape me three times.
I prefer death to shackles.
But put me in a church prison and remove these chains
and I'll do as the church wishes.
You've heard no more voices?
- Yes, I've heard them. <- What do they say?
That I was wrong to abjure
to save my life
I should've answered the preacher boldly.
He was a false preacher.
If I say God didn't send me I'll be damned.
Are they the voices of your saints?
- Yes, and God's. <- What of the crown you spoke of?
I told the truth in the trial.
And what about when you abjured before the crowd?
I didn't want to deny my visions. I was afraid of the fire.
I'd rather die than endure what I'm enduring.
I didn't understand what was on that paper.
I would recant only
if it pleased the Lord.
You are a relapsed heretic!
We've got her.
The bishop sent us to say you are to die.
Joan.
I wish to die, yes, but not by burning.
My body is pure.
It mustn't be reduced to ashes!
Bishop, I die by your hand.
I appeal to the Great Judge.
Your voices said you'd live.
<Now you see that they deceived you.
Yes, they did.
<A voice from God wouldn't lie.
We must state publicly that you misled the people
and humbly beg forgiveness.
Remind me when we're in the square I fear I may forget.
- She wants communion. - Give her whatever she wants.
<Do you believe this is the body of Christ
Yes, and he alone can save me.
- Where will I be tonight. - Do you not place your hope in God?
Yes. With God's help I'll be in Paradise.
Go in peace.
The church cannot save you now from secular law.
We ask Joan to save her soul
with penitence and contrition.
My king, am I to die here?
I ask for pity from both sides.
Pray for me.
I forgive the evil done me.
I, Bishop of Beauvais decree that
like a rotten member that must not infect others.
You must be cut off from the church
and given over to secular law. We reject and abandon you
but pray the law will temper its decision in your regard
and not resort to death and mutilation.
I want a cross.
I commend myself to God, Blessed Mary and all the saints.
I do not accuse my king nor anyone else for what I have done.
I hail all who are here.
St. Michael!
St. Catherine! St. Margaret!
<My voices were from God.
All I did, I did at God's command.
My voices did not lie. My visions were from God
Jesus!