Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 397 pages of information about Jeanne D'Arc.

Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 397 pages of information about Jeanne D'Arc.
some of them with lilies; that she had but two or three lances in her own company—­but that in the rest of the army some carried pennons like hers, but only to distinguish them from others.  Asked, if the banners were often renewed, answered:  “I know not; when the staff was broken it was renewed.”  Asked, if she had not said that the pennons copied from hers were fortunate, answered, that she had said, “Go in boldly among the English”; and that she had done the same herself.  Asked, if she said that they should have good luck if they bore the banners well, answered, that she had told them what would happen, and what should still happen.  Asked, if she had caused holy water to be sprinkled on the pennons when they were new, she answered, “That has nothing to do with the trial”; but added that if she did so sprinkle them she was not instructed to answer that question now.  Asked, if the others put Jhesus Maria upon their pennons, she answered:  “By my faith, I know nothing about it.”  Asked, if she had ever carried or caused to be carried in a procession round a church or altar the linen of which the pennons were made, answered no, that she had never seen anything of the kind done.

Asked, when she was before Jargeau, what it was that she wore behind her helmet, and if she had not something round it, she answered:  “By my faith, there was nothing.”  Asked, if she knew a certain Brother Richard, she answered:  “I never saw him till I was before Troyes.”  Asked, what cheer Brother Richard made to her, answered, that she thought the people of Troyes had sent him to her, doubting whether she had come on the part of God, and that as he approached her he made the sign of the cross, and sprinkled holy water; she said to him:  “Come on boldly; I shall not fly away.”  Asked, if she had seen, or had caused to be made, any images or pictures of herself, she answered, that at Arras she had seen a picture in the hands of a Scot, where she was represented fully armed, kneeling on one knee, and presenting a letter to the King; but that she had never caused any image or picture of herself to be made.  Asked concerning a table in the house of her host, upon which were painted three women, with Justice, Peace, Union inscribed beneath, answered, that she knew nothing of it.  Asked, if she knew that those of her party caused masses and prayers to be made in her honour, she answered, that she knew not; and if they did so, it was not by any command of hers; but that if they did so, her opinion was that they did no wrong.  Asked, if those of her party firmly believed that she was sent from God, she answered:  “I know not whether they believed it; but even if they did not believe it, I am none the less sent on the part of God.”  Asked, whether she thought that to believe that she was sent from god was a worthy faith, she answered, that if they believed that she was sent from God they were not mistaken.  Asked, if she knew what her party meant by kissing her feet and hands and her

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