“But what is this peril or danger?” “Saint Catherine has told me that I shall have help; I do not know if this will be to be delivered from prison, or if, whilst I am being tried, some disturbance may happen, by which I shall be delivered. The help will come to me, I think, in one way or the other. Besides this, my Voices have told me that I shall be delivered by a great victory; and they add: ‘Be resigned; have no care for thy martyrdom; thou wilt come in the end to the Kingdom of Paradise.’ They have told me this simply, absolutely, and without fail. What is meant by my martyrdom is the pain and adversity that I suffer in prison; I do not know if I shall have still greater suffering to bear; for that I refer me to God.” [Illustration: GATE TO THE PALACE OF CAUCHON, BISHOP OF BEAUVAIS. ] “Since your Voices told you that you would come in the end to the Kingdom of Paradise, have you felt assured of being saved and of not being damned in Hell?” “I believe firmly what my Voices have told me, that I shall be saved; I believe it as firmly as if I were already there.” “After this revelation, do you believe that you cannot commit mortal sin?”[77] “I do not know, and in all things I wait on Our Lord.” “That is an answer of great weight!” “Yes, and one which I hold for a great treasure.” _The same day, Wednesday, March 14th, in the afternoon. Present: Jean Delafontaine, Commissary, assisted by Nicolas Midi and Gerard Feuillet. Witnesses: Brother Ysambard de la Pierre and Jean Manchon._ And in the first place, Jeanne expressed herself thus: “On the subject of the answer that I made to you this morning on the certainty of my salvation, I mean the answer thus: provided that I keep the promise made to Our Lord, to keep safe the virginity of my body and soul.” “Have you any need to confess, as you believe by the revelations of your Voices that you will be saved?” “I do not know of having committed mortal sin; but, if I were in mortal sin, I think that Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret would abandon me at once. I do not think one can cleanse one’s conscience too much.” “Since you have been in the prison, have you never blasphemed or cursed God?” “No; sometimes I said: ‘bon gré Dieu,’ or ‘Saint Jean,’ or ‘Notre Dame’: those who have reported otherwise may have misunderstood.” “To take a man at ransom, and to put him to death, while a prisoner, is not that mortal sin?” “I never did it.” “What did you do to Franquet d’Arras, who was put to death, at Lagny?”