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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