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'How do you distinguish one from the other? asked Beaupère. 'By the manner in which they salute me, Joan answered. 'How long have they been in communication with you? 'I have been under their protection seven years, was the answer. Joan had referred to the succour which she had received from Saint Michel.
The Bishop then applied to one of the doctors of theology to examine and cross-question the prisoner. This man's name was Beaupère. B. 'In the first place, Joan, I will exhort you to tell the truth, as you have sworn to do, on all that I may have to ask you. J. 'You may ask me questions on which I shall be able to answer you, and on others about which I cannot.
The vicar of the Inquisition, Martin, presided with Cauchon; and as he was only a vicar, he had but second place. Joan underwent fourteen examinations; they are singular. She said that she saw St. Catherine and St. Marguerite at Poitiers. Doctor Beaupère asks her how she recognized the saints. She answers that it was by their way of bowing. Beaupère asks her if they are great chatterboxes.
Then Beaupère questioned her regarding the relief of Orleans, and he was told by the Maid that she first went to the redoubt of Saint Loup by the bridge. 'Did you expect, was the next question, 'that you would be able to raise the siege? 'Yes, she was certain, Joan answered, from a revelation which she had received, and of which she had told the King before making the expedition.
Be this as it may, there is no authority given for this idea of Loiseleur having probed her on this point; and Wallon, in his history of the Maid, makes no allusion to such an interview, and only states that John Beaupère went in the morning of the 24th to the prison, and he was soon followed there by Nicolas Loiseleur, who vehemently urged on Joan to comply with the demands which the judges had made.
The voice came to me about mid-day; it was in the summer, and I was in my father's garden. 'Had you been fasting? asked Beaupère. J. 'Yes, I had been fasting. B. 'Had you fasted on the day before? J. 'No, I had not. B. 'From what direction did the voices come? J. 'I heard the voice coming from my right from towards the church. B. 'Was the voice accompanied with a bright light?
'I know not if the voices would consent, she answered. 'But why, then asked Beaupère, 'does the voice not speak to the King now, as it did formerly, when you were with him? 'I know not if it be the wish of God, Joan answered: 'without the grace of God I should be able to do nothing.
But that it was His will I would not have come. I would sooner have had my body torn in sunder by horses than come, lacking that." Beaupere shifted once more to the matter of the male attire, now, and proceeded to make a solemn talk about it. That tried Joan's patience; and presently she interrupted and said: "It is a trifling thing and of no consequence.
"Go look on the register," she says. Beaupère asks her if, when she saw St. Michael, he was naked. She answers: "Do you think our Lord had nothing to clothe him with?" The curious will carefully observe here that Joan had long been directed with other religious women of the populace by a rogue named Richard, who performed miracles, and who taught these girls to perform them.
This remark, most innocent to our comprehension, was afterwards made use of as a weapon to accuse the prisoner of the charge of heresy. Later on in the day Beaupère asked Joan if the voice had form and features. This the prisoner refused to answer. 'There is a saying among children, she said, 'that one is sometimes hanged for speaking the truth.
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