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 have for the moment nothing else to say to you.”
“The more you fear for your life, on account of the illness that you
have, the more should you amend; you will not have the rights of a
Catholic if you do not submit to the Church.”
“If my body dies in prison, I trust that you will have it put in holy
ground; if you do not have it put there, I place my trust in God!”
“You said in your Trial that if you had said or done anything against
the Christian Faith established by Our Lord, you would not maintain it.”
“I refer to the answer that I have made to that, and to Our Lord.”
“You say you have had many revelations from God by Saint Michael, Saint
Catherine and Saint Margaret: if any good person were to come affirming
that he had revelations from God touching your mission, would you
believe him?”
“There is no Christian in this world who could come to me and say he had
had a revelation but that I should know if he were speaking truly or
not; I should know it by Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret.”
“You imagine then that God can reveal nothing to any one which is
unknown to you?”
“I know well that He can; but for me, I should not believe in this case
any man or woman if I had not some sign.”
“Do you believe that the Holy Scriptures have been revealed by God?”
“You know it well; I know it well!”
“We summon you, We exhort you, We beseech you to take counsel of the
Clerks and notable Masters here present, and to believe in the counsel
that they will give you for the salvation of your soul. And once more We
ask you if you will submit to the Church Militant your sayings and your
doings?”
“Whatever may happen to me, I will do and say no other thing than what I
have already said in the Trial.”
Here the venerable Doctors who were assisting Us did exhort her with the
most lively instance and did strive to obtain from her that she would
submit herself and her acts to the Church Militant. They cited to her a
number of authorities taken from Holy Scripture, and shewed her numerous
examples. They enlarged upon these authorities and these examples. One
of the Doctors,[88] in his exhortation, brought forward this passage of
Matthew, chapter xviii.: “If thy brother sin against thee, go and tell
him his fault between thee and him alone”; and this other, “If he will
not hear the Church, let him be unto thee as a heathen-man and a
publican.” He shewed to Jeanne these truths in French, and said to her
at the end, that if she would not submit to the Church and obey it, the
Church must abandon her as an Infidel [_sarrazine_].
“I am a good Christian,” she answered, “I have been baptized; I shall
die a good Christian!”
“As you ask that the Church should administer the Eucharist to you, why
will you not submit to the Church? It would be administered to you at
once.”
“Of this submission I will say no more than I have said: I love God, I
serve Him; I am a good Christian; I wish to help and maintain the Church
with all my power.”
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