 Tied to a tall pillar at the Vieux-Marché in Rouen, she asked two of the clergy, Fr Martin Ladvenu and Fr Isambart de la Pierre, to hold a crucifix before her.An English soldier also constructed a small cross that she put in the front of her dress.After she died, the English raked back the coals to expose her charred body so that no one could claim she had escaped alive.