Incidentally, you can't really blame the Pope of the day or the Church of the time for what the English did to Joan of Arc, subsequently declared a saint by the Church.
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People are like that WYSIWYG - in the States I think the word is "ornary". Here we'd say "bloody minded". More precisely, when a detestable government is trying to stomp on something, a lot of people are likely to recognise what is good about it. I find that a very encouraging thought.