"We have come to bring you consolation in your suffering," he said. "Wise and learned men have scrutinized your answers concerning the faith which have seemed to them perilous. But you are only a poor, illiterate woman, and we come to offer you learned and wise men, watchful and honest, who will give you, as is their duty, the knowledge which you have not. Take heed to our words, for if you be obstinate, consulting only your own unschooled brain, we must abandon you. You see to what peril you expose yourself, and it is this we would avoid for you with all the power of our affection." "I thank you for what you say to me for my good," answered Jeanne wearily. "It seems to me, seeing how ill I am, that I am in great danger of death. If it be that God do His pleasure on me, I ask of you that I may have my confession and my Saviour also, and that I may be put in holy ground." "If you desire to have the rites and Sacraments of the Church," said Cauchon, "you must do as good Catholics ought to do, and submit to Holy Church." "I can say no other thing to you," she said, turning from them. Then they exhorted her powerfully, citing chapter and verse from the Scriptures, telling her finally that if she would not obey and submit to the Church she would be abandoned as a "Saracen." "I am a good Christian," she told them. "I have been baptized; I shall die a good Christian. I love God; I serve Him. I wish to help and sustain the Church with all my power." And that being all they could get from her they left her for the time being. The sittings in the room at the end of the great hall of the castle were resumed on May second, all the assessors being present. Cauchon summed up all the trial, saying that in spite of the diligence and gentleness of the doctors their efforts had produced nothing. It seemed good, therefore, that the woman should be admonished before them all. Maître Jean Chatillon, the lord Archdeacon of Evreux, was invited to make the address whereby he might "persuade her to leave the criminal path where she now is and return again to that of truth." Jeanne listened dutifully to a long preamble by Maître Chatillon, and finally bade her admonisher to come to the point. "Read your book, and then I will answer," she said. "I refer myself to God, my master in all things. I love Him with all my heart." The trial was turning upon the point as to whether she was willing to submit all her words and deeds to the judgment of the holy Mother Church. "The Church," she exclaimed. "I love it, and desire to sustain it with my whole power, for the sake of our Christian faith. It is not I who should be hindered from going to church, and hearing mass." As to what she had done for her King and her country she submitted it all to God, who had sent her. The question of submission was again asked, and she replied that she submitted all to God, our Lady, and the saints. "And my opinion is," she added, "that God and the Church are one."