After having heard Us make this narration, the said Deputy, being present, declared, addressing himself to Us, “That which you have just said is true. It has been, as much as in me lies, and still is, agreeable to me that you should continue the Trial.” Then the said Jeanne was brought before Us. We warned and required her, on pain of law, to make oath as she had done the day before and to swear simply and absolutely to speak truth on all things in respect of which she should be asked; to which she answered: “I swore yesterday: that should be enough.” Again We required her to swear: we said to her, not even a prince, required to swear in a matter of faith, can refuse. “I made oath to you yesterday,” she answered, “that should be quite enough for you: you burden me over-much!” Finally she made oath to speak truth on _that which touches the Faith_. Then Maître Jean Beaupère, a well-known Professor of Theology, did, by Our order, question the said Jeanne. This he did as follows: “First of all, I exhort you, as you have so sworn, to tell the truth on that which I am about to ask you.” “You may well ask me some things on which I shall tell you the truth and some on which I shall not tell it you. If you were well informed about me, you would wish to have me out of your hands. I have done nothing except by revelation.” “How old were you when you left your father’s house?” “On the subject of my age I cannot vouch.” “In your youth, did you learn any trade?” “Yes, I learnt to spin and to sew; in sewing and spinning I fear no woman in Rouen. For dread of the Burgundians, I left my father’s house and went to the town of Neufchâteau,[10] in Lorraine, to the house of a woman named La Rousse, where I sojourned about fifteen days. When I was at home with my father, I employed myself with the ordinary cares of the house. I did not go to the fields with the sheep and the other animals. Every year I confessed myself to my own Curé, and, when he was prevented, to another Priest with his permission. Sometimes, also, two or three times, I confessed to the Mendicant Friars; this was at Neufchâteau. At Easter I received the Sacrament of the Eucharist.” “Have you received the Sacrament of the Eucharist at any other Feast but Easter?” “Pass that by [_Passez outre_]. I was thirteen when I had a Voice from God for my help and guidance. The first time that I heard this Voice, I was very much frightened; it was mid-day, in the summer, in my father’s garden. I had not fasted the day before. I heard this Voice to my right, towards the Church; rarely do I hear it without its being accompanied also by a light. This light comes from the same side as the Voice. Generally it is a great light. Since I came into France I have often heard this Voice.” “But how could you see this light that you speak of, when the light was at the side?”