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.
“Thereupon I answer to-day as I have done before.”
On the subject of the Church Militant, she said:
“I believe indeed in the Church which is here below; but for my words
and deeds, as I have said elsewhere, I rely on and refer me to the only
God. I believe that the Church Militant cannot err or fail; but as to my
words and deeds, I submit them and refer all to God, Who caused me to do
what I have done. I submit me to God, my Creator, Who caused me to do
all these things; I refer me to God thereupon and to my own self.”
“Do you mean by this to say that you have no judge on earth? Is not our
Holy Father, the Pope, your judge?”
“I will say nothing else to you. I have a good Master, that is God; it
is to Him I look in everything and to none other.”
“If you will not believe in the Church, if you will not believe that
Article of the Creed, ‘the Church, One, Holy, Catholic,’ you will be
declared a heretic and, by other judges, punished with the pains of
fire.”
“I will say no more to you, and, if I saw the fire, I should say all
that I am saying to you, and naught else.”[89]
“If a General Council—that is to say, our Holy Father the Pope, the
Cardinals, Bishops and others—were here, would you not then refer and
submit yourself to this Holy Council?”
“You shall drag nothing else from me upon this.”
“Will you submit to our Holy Father the Pope?”
“Take me to him, I will reply to him.” [She would answer no more.]
On the subject of the 3rd Article, she replied:
“As to my garments, I will indeed take a long dress and a woman’s hood
to go to Church and to receive there the Sacrament of the Eucharist—as I
said elsewhere—provided that, directly after, I may put off that dress
and take again what I bear at this moment.” And when it was suggested to
her that she had taken this dress without necessity, especially while in
prison, she said: “When I have done that for which I am sent by God, I
will resume woman’s dress.”
“Do you think you do well to wear a man’s dress?”
“I refer me to Our Lord.”
“Will you leave off wearing this dress and the believing that you do
right in wearing it? Will you resume a woman’s dress?”
“I will do nothing different.”
On the subject of the 4th Article she replied:
“I have blasphemed neither God nor His Saints.”
“When Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret came to you, did you make the
sign of the Cross?”
“Sometimes I made it, sometimes not.”
On the subject of the 5th Article she answered:
“As to my revelations, I refer me to my Judge—that is to say, to God. My
revelations came to me from God direct.”
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