The army prepared to return to the town. In three hours, the bridge, three arches of which had been broken, was rendered passable. Some hours after darkness, the Maid entered the city by the bridge as she had foretold.[1102] In like manner all her prophecies were fulfilled when their fulfilment depended on her own courage and determination. The captains accompanied her, followed by all the men-at-arms, the archers, the citizens and the prisoners who were brought in two by two. The bells of the city were ringing; the clergy and people sang the Te Deum.[1103] After God and his Blessed Mother, they gave thanks in all humility to Saint Aignan and Saint Euverte, who had been bishops in their mortal lives and were now the heavenly patrons of the city. The townsfolk believed that both before and during the siege they had given the saints so much wax and had paraded their relics in so many processions that they had deserved their powerful intercession, and that thereby they had won the victory and been delivered out of the enemy's hand. There was no doubt about the intervention of the saints because at the time of assault on Les Tourelles two bishops bright and shining had been seen in the sky, hovering over the fort.[1104] [Footnote 1102: _Journal du siege_, p. 88. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 295. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 78.] [Footnote 1103: _Chronique de l'etablissement de la fete_, in _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 294 _et seq._] [Footnote 1104: _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 163.] Jeanne was brought back to Jacques Boucher's house, where a surgeon again dressed the wound she had received above the breast. She took four or five slices of bread soaked in wine and water, but neither ate nor drank anything else.[1105] [Footnote 1105: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 295.] On the morrow, Sunday, the 8th of May, being the Feast of the Appearance of St. Michael, it was announced in Orleans, in the morning, that the English issuing forth from those western bastions which were all that remained to them, were ranging themselves before the town moat in battle array and with standards flying. The folk of Orleans, both the men-at-arms and the train-bands, greatly desired to fall upon them. At daybreak Marshal de Boussac and a number of captains went out and took up their positions over against the enemy.[1106] [Footnote 1106: _Journal du siege_, p. 89. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 296. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, pp. 78, 79. _Le Jouvencel_, vol. i, p. 208. The passage beginning with the words, "The Sire of Rocquencourt said," must be taken as historical.] The Maid went out into the country with the priests. Being unable to put on her cuirass because of the wound on her shoulder, she merely wore one of those light coats-of-mail called _jaserans_.[1107] [Footnote 1107: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 9 (evidence of Dunois).] The men-at-arms inquired of her: "To-day being the Sabbath, is it wrong to fight?" She replied: "You must hear mass."[1108]