Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 397 pages of information about Jeanne D'Arc.

Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 397 pages of information about Jeanne D'Arc.
garments, answered, that many people did it, but that her hands were kissed as little as she could help it.  The poor people, however, came to her of their own free will, because she never oppressed them, but protected them as far as was in her power.  Asked, what reverence the people of Troyes made to her, she answered, “None at all,” and added that she believed Brother Richard came into Troyes with her army, but that she had not seen him coming in.  Asked, if he had not preached at the gates when she came, answered, that she scarcely paused there at all, and knew nothing of any sermon.  Asked, how long she was at Rheims, and answered, four or five days.  Asked, whether she baptised (stood godmother to) children there, she answered:  To one at Troyes, but did not remember any at Rheims or at Chateau-Thierry; but there were two at St. Denis; and willingly she called the boys “Charles,” in honour of her King, and the girls “Jeanne,” according to what their mothers wished.  Asked, if the good women of the town did not touch with their rings the rings she wore, she answered, that many women touched her hands and her rings; but she did not know why they did it.  Asked, what she did with the gloves in which her King was consecrated, she answered that “Gloves were distributed to the knights and nobles that came there”; and there was one who lost his; but she did not say that she would find it for him.  Also she said that her standard was in the church at Rheims, and she believed near the altar, and she herself had carried it for a short time, but did not know whether Brother Richard had held it.

She was then asked if she communicated and went to confession often while moving about the country, and if she received the sacrament in her male costume; to which she answered “yes, but without her arms”; she was then questioned about a horse belonging to the Bishop of Senlis, which had not suited her, a matter completely without importance.  The inference intended was that it was taken from him without being paid for; but there was no evidence that the Maid knew anything about it.  We then come to the incident of Lagny.

She was asked how old the child was which she saw at Lagny, and answered, three days; it had been brought to Lagny to the Church of Notre Dame, and she was told that all the maids in Lagny were before our Lady praying for it, and she also wished to go and pray God and our Lady that its life might come back; and she went, and prayed with the rest.  And finally life appeared; it yawned three times, and was baptised and buried in consecrated ground.  It had given no sign of life for three days and was black as her coat, but when it yawned its colour began to come back.  She was there with the other maids on her knees before our Lady to make her prayer.

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