
A French peasant was burned as a heretic in 1431.
Her mother spent 25 years demanding a retrial.
In 1456, the Pope overturned the verdict.
Joan of Arc’s mother, Isabelle Romée, refused to accept the verdict against her daughter. She petitioned the Pope for 25 years — outliving her daughter by decades — until the Church finally annulled the conviction.
They don’t make parents like that anymore.
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