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.
“I know nothing about it.”
“Who prompted you to have painted on your standard Angels with arms,
feet, legs, and clothing?”
“I have already answered you.”
“Did you have them painted as they came to see you?”
“No, I had them painted in the way they are painted in the Churches.”
“Did you ever see them in the manner they are painted?”
“I will tell you nothing more.”
“Why did you not have painted the brightness that comes to you with the
Angels and the Voices?”
“It was not commanded me.”
_The same day, March 17th, afternoon. Present: The Bishop and the Deputy
Inquisitor, assisted by Jean Beaupère, Jacques de Touraine, Nicolas
Midi, Pierre Maurice, Gerard Feuillet, Thomas de Courcelles, Jean
Delafontaine; in presence of Brother Ysambard de la Pierre and John
Gris._
We interrogated the said Jeanne, as follows:
“Did the two Angels painted on your standard represent Saint Michael and
Saint Gabriel?”
“They were there only for the honour of Our Lord, Who was painted on the
standard. I only had these two Angels represented to honour Our Lord,
Who was there represented holding the world.”
“Were the two Angels represented on your standard those who guard the
world? Why were there not more of them, seeing that you had been
commanded by God to take this standard?”
“The standard was commanded by Our Lord, by the Voices of Saint
Catherine and Saint Margaret, which said to me: ‘Take the standard in
the name of the King of Heaven’; and because they had said to me ‘Take
the standard in the name of the King of Heaven,’ I had this figure of
God and of two Angels done; I did all by their command.”
“Did you ask them if, by virtue of this standard, you would gain all the
battles wherever you might find yourself, and if you would be
victorious?”
“They told me to take it boldly, and that God would help me.”
“Which gave most help, you to your standard, or your standard to you?”
“The victory either to my standard or myself, it was all from Our Lord.”
“The hope of being victorious, was it founded on your standard or on
yourself?”
“It was founded on Our Lord and nought else.”
“If any one but you had borne this standard, would he have been as
fortunate as you in bearing it?”
“I know nothing about it: I wait on Our Lord.”
“If one of the people of your party had sent you his standard to carry,
would you have had as much confidence in it as in that which had been
sent to you by God? Even the standard of your King, if it had been sent
to you, would you have had as much confidence in it as in your own?”
“I bore most willingly that which had been ordained for me by Our Lord;
and, meanwhile, in all I waited upon Our Lord.”
“For what purpose was the sign you put on your letters and these words:
‘_Jhesus Maria_’?”
“The clerks who wrote my letters put it; some told me that it was
suitable for me to put these two words: ‘_Jhesus Maria_.’”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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