[Footnote 1163: _Ibid._, vol. i, pp. 220, 253; vol. ii, pp. 294, 438. _Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, p. 60. Analysis of a letter from Regnault de Chartres in Rogier (_Trial_, vol. v, pp. 168-169). Martin le Franc, _Le champion des dames_, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 48.] For seven years now Saint Michael the Archangel and the Saints Catherine and Margaret, wearing rich and precious crowns, had been visiting and conversing with her. It was when the bells were ringing, at the hour of compline and of matins, that she could best hear their words.[1164] In those days bells of all kinds, large and small, metropolitan, parochial or conventual, sounded in peals, or, chiming harmoniously, in voices grave or gay, spoke to all men and of all things. Their song descended from the sky to mark the ecclesiastical and civic calendar. They called priests and people to church; they mourned for the dead and they praised God; they announced fairs and field work; they clashed portentous tidings through the sky, and in times of war they called to arms and sounded the alarm. Friendly to the husbandman they scattered the tempest, they warded off hail-storms and drove away pestilence. They put to flight those demons that, flying ceaselessly through the air, haunt the children of men; and to their blessed sound was attributed the power of calming violence.[1165] Saint Catharine, she who visited Jeanne every day, was the patron of bells and bell-ringers. Thus many bells bore her name. In the ringing of bells as in the rustling of leaves, Jeanne was wont to hear her Voices. She seldom heard them without seeing a light in the direction whence they came.[1166] Those Voices called her: "Jeanne, daughter of God!"[1167] Often the Archangel and the Saints appeared to her. When they came she did them reverence, bending her knee and bowing her head; she kissed their feet, knowing it to be a greater mark of respect than kissing the countenance. She was conscious of the fragrance and grateful warmth of their glorified bodies.[1168] [Footnote 1164: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 61, 62, 481.] [Footnote 1165: P. Blavignac, _La cloche_, Geneva, 1877, in 8vo. L. Morillot, _Etude sur l'emploi des clochettes_, in _Bulletin hist. archeolog. du diocese de Dijon_, 1887, in 8vo.] [Footnote 1166: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 52, 64, 153, _passim_.] [Footnote 1167: _Ibid._, p. 130.] [Footnote 1168: _Ibid._, p. 186.] Saint Michael the Archangel did not come alone. There accompanied him angels so numerous and so tiny that they danced like sparks in the damsel's dazzled eyes. When the saints and the Archangel went away, she wept with grief because they had not taken her with them.[1169] In like manner an angel visited Judith in the camp of Holofernes. [Footnote 1169: _Ibid._, pp. 72, 75.]