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and Burgundian doctors. Were they not all to meet at the Council?

The examiner asked: "How know ye that they are these two saints? Know
ye them one from another?"

Said Jeanne: "Well do I know who they are; and I do know one from the
other."

"How?"

"By the greeting they give me."[2280]

[Footnote 2280: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 72.]

Let not Jeanne be hastily taxed with error or untruth. Did not the
Angel salute Gideon (Judges vi), and Raphael salute Tobias (Tobit
xii)?[2281]

[Footnote 2281: Lanery d'Arc, _Memoires et consultations en faveur de
Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 406.]

Thereafter Jeanne gave another reason: "I know them because they call
themselves by name."[2282]

[Footnote 2282: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 72.]

When she was asked whether her saints were both clothed alike, whether
they were of the same age, whether they spoke at once, whether one of
them appeared before the other, she refused to reply, saying she had
not permission to do so.[2283]

[Footnote 2283: _Ibid._, pp. 72, 73.]

Maitre Jean Beaupere inquired which of the apparitions came to her the
first when she was about thirteen.

Jeanne said: "It was Saint Michael. I beheld him with my eyes. And he
was not alone, but with him were angels from heaven. It was by
Messire's command alone that I came into France."

"Did you actually behold Saint Michael and these angels in the body?"

"I saw them with the eyes of my head as plainly as I see you; and when
they went away I wept and should have liked them to take me with
them."

"In what semblance was Saint Michael?"[2284]

[Footnote 2284: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 73.]

She was not permitted to say.

She was asked whether she had received permission from God to go into
France and whether God had commanded her to put on man's dress.

By keeping silence on this point she became liable to be suspected of
heresy, and however she replied she laid herself open to serious
charges,--she either took upon herself homicide and abomination, or
she attributed it to God, which manifestly was to blaspheme.

Concerning her coming into France, she said: "I would rather have been
dragged by the hair of my head than have come into France without
permission from Messire." Concerning her dress she added: "Dress is
but a little thing, less than nothing. It was not according to the
counsel of any man of this world that I put on man's clothing. I
neither wore this attire nor did anything save by the command of
Messire