[Footnote 254: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 52, 72, 73, 89, 170.] It is well known that fasting conduces to the seeing of visions. Jeanne was accustomed to fast. Had she abstained from food that morning and if so when had she last partaken of it? We cannot say.[255] [Footnote 255: The manuscript runs: _non jejunaverat die praecedenti_. Quicherat omits _non_. _Trial_, vol. i, p. 52. Cf. _Revue critique_, March, 1908, p. 215.] On another day the voice spoke again and repeated, "Jeannette, be good." The child did not know whence the voice came. But the third time, as she listened, she knew it was an angel's voice and she even recognised the angel to be St. Michael. She could not be mistaken, for she knew him well. He was the patron saint of the duchy of Bar.[256] She sometimes saw him on the pillar of church or chapel, in the guise of a handsome knight, with a crown on his helmet, wearing a coat of mail, bearing a shield, and transfixing the devil with his lance.[257] Sometimes he was represented holding the scales in which he weighed souls, for he was provost of heaven and warden of paradise;[258] at once the leader of the heavenly hosts and the angel of judgment.[259] He loved high lands.[260] That is why in Lorraine a chapel had been dedicated to him on Mount Sombar, north of the town of Toul. In very remote times he had appeared to the Bishop of Avranches and commanded him to build a church on Mount Tombe, in such a place as he should find a bull hidden by thieves; and the site of the building was to include the whole area overtrodden by the bull. The Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel-au-Peril-de-la-Mer was erected in obedience to this command.[261] [Footnote 256: V. Servais, _Annales historiques du Barrois_, Bar-le-Duc, 1865, vol. i, engraving 2.] [Footnote 257: P. Ch. Cahier, _Caracteristique des saints dans l'art populaire_, vol. i, p. 363. Quicherat, _Apercus nouveaux_, p. 50. S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, pp. xcv, xcvi, and proofs and illustrations, xxiv, p. 74.] [Footnote 258: _Mystere de Saint Remi_, the Arsenal Library, ms. 3.364, folios 4 and 108.] [Footnote 259: "_Sed signifer Sanctus Michael representet eas (animas) in lucem sanctam._" Prayer from the mass for the dead.] [Footnote 260: A. Maury, _Croyances et legendes du moyen age_, pp. 171 _et seq._ Barbier de Montault, _Traite d'iconographie chretienne_, vol. i, p. 191.] [Footnote 261: AA. SS., 1672, vol. iii, i, pp. 85 _et seq._ Dom. J. Huynes, _Histoire generale de l'abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel_, ed. R. de Beaurepaire, Rouen, 1872, pp. 61 _et seq._ A. Forgeais, _Collection de plombs_ (seals) _histories trouves dans la Seine_, Paris, 1864, vol. iii, p. 197. S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, ch. iv. _Chronique du Mont-Saint-Michel_ (1343-1468), ed. S. Luce, Paris, 1880-1886 (2 vols. in 8vo), vol. i, pp. 26, 146, 163 _et seq._]