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s who had come with her to the King: "So far as I saw, certain among them were very like, the others different. Some had wings. Some wore crowns, others did not. And they were with Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret, and they accompanied the Angel of whom I have spoken and the other angels also into the chamber of the King."[2365] [Footnote 2365: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 144.] And thus for a long time, as she was pressed by her interrogator, she continued to tell these marvellous stories one after another. When she was asked for the second time whether the Angel had written her letters, she denied it.[2366] But now it was the Angel who bore the crown and not Saint Michael who was in question. And despite her having said they were one and the same, she may have distinguished between them. Therefore we shall never know whether she did receive letters from Saint Michael the Archangel, or from Saint Catherine and from Saint Margaret. [Footnote 2366: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 145.] Thereafter the examiner inquired touching a cup lost at Reims and found by Jeanne as well as the gloves.[2367] Saints sometimes condescended to find things that had been lost, as is proved by the example of Saint Antony of Padua. It was always with the help of God. Necromancers imitated their powers by invoking the aid of demons and by profaning sacred things. [Footnote 2367: _Ibid._, p. 146.] She was also questioned concerning the priest who had a concubine. Here again she was reproached with being possessed of a magic gift of clairvoyance. It was by magic she had known that this priest had a concubine. Many other such things were reported of her. For example, it was said that at the sight of a certain loose woman she knew that this woman had killed her child.[2368] [Footnote 2368: Eberhard Windecke, pp. 184, 186.] Then recurred the same old questions: "When you went to the attack on Paris did you receive a revelation from your Voices? Was it revealed to you that you should go against La Charite? Was it a revelation that caused you to go to Pont-l'Eveque?" She denied that she had then received any revelation from her Voices. The last question was: "Did you not say before Paris, 'Surrender the town in the name of Jesus'?" She answered that she had not spoken those words, but had said, "Surrender the town to the King of France."[2369] [Footnote 2369: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 147, 148.] The Parisians who were engaged in repelling
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