On May 30, 1431, a nineteen-year-old peasant girl from a small village in France was burned at the stake in the marketplace of Rouen. Her name was Joan of Arc. And her last word was not a cry of despair — but a name.

Jesus.

In this episode of the Moments Almanac, we pause at one of the most remarkable lives in Christian history. A young woman who heard the voice of God, obeyed at enormous cost, and faced her ending with a stillness that still defies explanation.

Featuring Psalm 23:4, a lyric from the hymn Be Still My Soul, and voices from three centuries — Joan herself, George Bernard Shaw, and the poet John Donne — all bearing witness to the same unshakeable truth:

Death, thou shalt die.

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