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[Footnote 2277: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 332, 362; vol. iii, pp. 60, 133, 141, 156, 162, 173, 181.]

Maitre Jean Beaupere, as on the previous Sat.u.r.day, was curious to know whether Jeanne had heard her Voices. She heard them every day.[2278]

[Footnote 2278: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 70.]

He asked her: ”Is it an angel's voice that speaketh unto you, or the voice of a woman saint or of a man saint? Or is it G.o.d speaking without an interpreter?”

Said Jeanne: ”This voice is the voice of Saint Catherine and of Saint Margaret; and on their heads are beautiful crowns, right rich and right precious. I am permitted to tell you so by Messire. If you doubt it send to Poitiers, where I was examined.”[2279]

[Footnote 2279: _Ibid._, p. 71.]

She was right in appealing to the clerks of France. The Armagnac doctors had no less authority in matters of faith than the English and Burgundian doctors. Were they not all to meet at the Council?

The examiner asked: ”How know ye that they are these two saints? Know ye them one from another?”

Said Jeanne: ”Well do I know who they are; and I do know one from the other.”

”How?”

”By the greeting they give me.”[2280]

[Footnote 2280: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 72.]

Let not Jeanne be hastily taxed with error or untruth. Did not the Angel salute Gideon (Judges vi), and Raphael salute Tobias (Tobit xii)?[2281]

[Footnote 2281: Lanery d'Arc, _Memoires et consultations en faveur de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 406.]

Thereafter Jeanne gave another reason: ”I know them because they call themselves by name.”[2282]

[Footnote 2282: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 72.]

When she was asked whether her saints were both clothed alike, whether they were of the same age, whether they spoke at once, whether one of them appeared before the other, she refused to reply, saying she had not permission to do so.[2283]

[Footnote 2283: _Ibid._, pp. 72, 73.]

Maitre Jean Beaupere inquired which of the apparitions came to her the first when she was about thirteen.

Jeanne said: ”It was Saint Michael. I beheld him with my eyes. And he was not alone, but with him were angels from heaven. It was by Messire's command alone that I came into France.”

”Did you actually behold Saint Michael and these angels in the body?”

”I saw them with the eyes of my head as plainly as I see you; and when they went away I wept and should have liked them to take me with them.”

”In what semblance was Saint Michael?”[2284]

[Footnote 2284: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 73.]

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