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Updated: May 19, 2025
It was of the finest steel, heavily plated with silver, richly ornamented with engraved designs, and polished like a mirror. Joan's Voices had told her that there was an ancient sword hidden somewhere behind the altar of St. Catherine's at Fierbois, and she sent De Metz to get it.
However, she heard mass thrice at the church of her favourite saint, Catherine de Fierbois, between Loches and Chinon, in a friendly country. And a strange thing happened later in that church. From Fierbois Joan made some clerk write to the king that she was coming to help him, and that she would know him among all his men.
"Even so, Sire; the sword of which no man knew aught, was lying buried beneath the high altar of St. Catherine's Church, in Fierbois." A murmur of surprise and gratification ran through the assembly. But there was no surprise upon the Maid's face. "Did you doubt, Sire?" she asked, and he could not meet the glance of her clear eyes.
And now, begone with you: to Fierbois, if you will; I go my own road alone." They wandered each his own way, sullen and murmuring, starved and weary. What they had seen or fancied, and whether, if the rest saw aught strange, Brother Thomas saw nought, I knew not then, and know not till this hour.
He was named Michael Hamilton, and was a tall man and strong, grim of face, sudden in anger, heavy of hand, walked a little lame, and lacked one ear. Catherine of Fierbois. You must know that Brittany, as at this time, held for the English, and Michael Hamilton had gone thither reiving and pillaging the country with a company of Scots men-at-arms.
Joan never made use of her sword, and bore one of the smaller banners into the fight. She declared she would never use her sword, although she attached a deep importance to it. 'My banner, she declared, 'I love forty times as much as my sword! And yet the sword which she obtained from the altar at Fierbois was in her eyes a sacred weapon.
Catharine at Fierbois. A page carried her banner, which she had caused to be made and embroidered as her voices enjoined. It was white satin, strewn with fleurs-de-lis, and on it were the words and the representation of the Saviour in his glory.
The subject was dropped now for a while, and Beaupere took up the matter of the miraculous sword of Fierbois to see if he could not find a chance there to fix the crime of sorcery upon Joan. "How did you know that there was an ancient sword buried in the ground under the rear of the altar of the church of St. Catherine of Fierbois?"
New armour had been made for her, all of steel and silver, and there was talk of a sword that she had come by in no common way, but through revelation of the saints. For she being in Tours had it revealed to her that a certain ancient sword, with five crosses on the blade, lay buried behind the altar of St. Catherine of Fierbois.
And there in the church of St. Denis, where she had knelt so many hours in prayer and supplication, the Maid left her beautiful silver armour, which had so often flashed its radiant message of triumph to her soldiers, and with it that broken sword broken outside the walls of Paris, and which no skill had sufficed to mend which had been taken from St Catherine's Church in Fierbois.
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