Who was vindicated in a retrial under Pope Callixtus III's rule?
Joan of Arc
Guillaume d'Estouteville
Ludovico Trevisan
Antonio Piccolomini
Answer
Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl who claimed to have heard voices from God instructing her to lead the French army to victory in the Hundred Years' War, was captured by the English and burned at the stake in 1431. In 1456, a retrial was held under Pope Callixtus III's rule, and she was posthumously declared innocent.
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