A 19-year-old peasant girl was burned for wearing men's clothes, then made a saint
Joan of Arc convinced the French crown she was divinely guided, helped break the siege of Orléans in 1429, and helped turn the tide of the Hundred Years' War at just 17. Captured a year later, she was tried by a pro-English church court on charges that boiled down to heresy and cross-dressing, and burned at the stake in 1431 at around 19. A retrial exonerated her in 1456, and the Catholic Church canonized her as a saint in 1920.