Portal:Religion/On this day/May 23

May 23:

 * 1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne. (See Siege of Compiègne.)
 * 1498 - Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake, in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
 * 1555 - Paul IV becomes Pope.