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The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER VIII
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She took it in her hand and told the priest that it was not the body of Christ her Redeemer, but that the body was in the wafer which the priest had covered with the corporal.[795] After that there could be no doubt that Jeanne was a great saint.
[Footnote 794: "_Altra santa Catarina_" (Morosini, vol.iii, p.

52).
There is no doubt that here she is compared to Saint Catherine of Alexandria and not to Saint Catherine of Sienna.] [Footnote 795: Morosini, vol.iii, p.

101.] At the termination of the inquiries, a favourable opportunity for introducing the Maid into Orleans arrived in the beginning of April.
For her arming and her accoutring she was sent first to Tours.[796] [Footnote 796: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

66, 210.] Sixty-six years later, an inhabitant of Poitiers, almost a hundred years old, told a young fellow-citizen that he had seen the Maid set out for Orleans on horseback, in white armour.[797] He pointed to the very stone from which she had mounted her horse in the corner of the Rue Saint-Etienne.

Now, when Jeanne was at Poitiers, she was not in armour.


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