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 JOAN OF ARC. 3(59 Voices had forbidden it.— This was pusillanimity, tending to des- peration and suicide; and in saying that God had forgiven it, " thou savorest ill as to human free-will." IX. Saying that St. Catharine and St. Margaret had promised her paradise if she preserved her virginity, feeling assured of it, and asserting that if she were in mortal sin they would not visit her. — " Thou savorest ill as to the Christian faith." X. Saying that St. Catharine and St. Margaret spoke French and not English because they were not of the English faction, and that, after knowing that these Voices were for Charles, she had not loved the Burgundians. — This is a rash blasphemy against those saints and a transgression of the divine command to love thy neighbor. XI. Reverencing the celestial visitants and believing them to come from God without consulting any churchman ; feeling as cer- tain of it as of Christ and the Passion ; and refusing to reveal the sign made to Charles without the command of God. — " Thou art an idolater, an invoker of devils, erring in the faith, and hast rash- ly made an illicit oath." XII. Refusing to obey the mandate of the Church if contrary to the pretended command of God, and rejecting the judgment of the Church on earth. — " Thou art schismatic, believing wrongly as to the truth and authority of the Church, and up to the present time thou errest perniciously in the faith of God." * Maitre Pierre Maurice, who read to her this extraordinary doc- ument, proceeded to address her with an odious assumption of kindness as " Jehanne ma chere amie" urging her earnestly and argumentatively to submit herself to the judgment of the Church, without which her soul was sure of damnation, and he had shrewd fears for her body. She answered firmly that if the fire was lighted and the executioner ready to cast her in the flames she would not vary from what she had already said. Nothing re- mained but to cite her for the next day to receive her final sen- tence^. . t Le Brun de Charmettes, IV. 102-4, 106.— Proces, p. 506. In considering the verdict of the University and the Inquisition it must be borne in mind that visions of the Saviour, the Virgin, and the Saints were almost every-day occurrences, and were recognized and respected by the Church. The III.— 24
 * Proces, pp. 503-5.— L'Averdy, pp. 56-97.