Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
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Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
attempted escape, 81;
delivered to the Duke of Bedford for £15,000, 334, 337;
prison changed to Beaurevoir, 337;
her leap from its tower, 54, 74, 75, 85, 337, 353, 355, 356, 363,
364, 369;
removed to Arras, thence to Crotoy, finally to Rouen, 337;
trial opened in Chapel Royal, Rouen Castle, 3, xix;
its Inquisitorial form, 338;
constitution of the court, 3, 8, 14, 22, 33, 34, 98, 99, 103;
objections to method of trial, xix-xx;
by at least two assessors, 182, 257, 339;
course of trial reviewed, 339–41;
promoters or counsel for prosecution, 3, 9;
application to hear Mass prior to opening of case refused, 4;
the charge, 4;
applies for counsel, but refused, 173;
offered but declines counsel from assessors, 102;
statements as to counsel, 180, 182, 187, 193, 195, 204, 209, 339;
urged as to whole truth in matters of faith, 5;
requested to answer on oath, 5;
conditionally declines, 5, 9, 15, 22, 33, 44;
makes oath in the matter of faith, not of revelations, 6, 342;
declines to say her _Pater_ except in Confession, 7;
sworn on second day, after remonstrance, 9;
held in a lay prison on an ecclesiastical charge, xviii, 162, 163;
shameful prison treatment, xvii, 7, 174, 189, 192, 195, 304, 338;
her jailer, 195;
her male attire, 12;
done nothing in the world but by order of God, even to taking male
attire, 26, 46, 65, 79, 114–15, 347, 351;
if released will wear woman’s dress, 21, 95;
desire to hear Mass, in what attire not settled, 81;
in war received sacrament in male dress, 51;
adherence to male dress, 87, 88, 189;
had a Voice from God for help and guidance, 10;
craved no reward from the apparition or Voice than her soul’s
salvation, 13;
the Voice her adviser, 16, 83, 306, 307;
votive candles to St. Catherine and St. Margaret, 82–3;
source of her counsel, 320;
believed as firmly as her belief in the Christian faith and that God
hath redeemed us that the Voice came to her from God, 17, 195,
356, 370;
warned that she would be captured, 57;
the Voice heard during her trial, 22, 39;
comforted by her Voices, 62, 67, 118;
her prayer for counsel, 358, 364;
her request to Voices, 75–6;
advised in certain things for the King alone, 17;
faith in her mission from God, 87, 115, 203, 356;
the Voice accompanied with brightness or light, 10, 18, 27, 75;
her visions, 15, 16, 306;
faith in the grace of God, 18;
for details of visitation by Voices refers judges to examination at
Poitiers, 24, 46;
unless with Divine authority refuses details, 352;
subtlety of questions put to her, 160, 184, 196, 202, 203, 215, 299,
305;
warns judge of his responsibility by her trial, 14, 16, 76;
comfort from St. Michael, 24, 25, 84;
interrogated as to St. Michael and St. Gabriel, 45;
came in God’s name, send me back to God, 15;
waits on our Lord, 90, 91, 108;
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