No notice was taken of Joan’s exoneration at the court of Charles VII, though those who effected it received payment from the king’s coffers. It was reported to the papal court, but the report went no further. Pope Calixtus’s successor Pius II would not have heard of it, even though his Commentaries praised Joan as a stupenda virgo. One historian did write about Joan’s life and exoneration, namely, Thomas Basin, Cauchon’s successor as bishop of Lisieux; his account was copied anonymously, and from it Church historians considered Joan to be endowed with natural virtues and powers of prophecy and to be unjustly put to death. The Nullity Trial did not come to full light until it and the original trial were published in the 1840s by Jules Quicherat, and it was only then that veneration of Joan as a saint began. It quickly gained ground, and in the 1890s her case started through the canonization process. Since her death was not considered a martyrdom (defense of the faith), her “heroic virtue” (high degree of holiness) had to be defended in four trial sessions against “Devil’s Advocates,” completed in 1904. After requisite miracles, beatification followed in 1909 and sainthood in 1920.