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

CHAPTER VIII
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Each one has her distinctive attribute.
The Persian holds the lantern and the Libyan the torch, which illuminated the darkness of the Gentiles.

The Agrippine, the European, and Erythrean are armed with the sword; the Phrygian bears the Paschal cross; the Hellespontine presents a rose tree in flower; the others display the visible signs of the mystery they foretell: the Cumaean a manger; the Delphian, the Samian, the Tiburtine, the Cimmerian a crown of thorns, a sceptre of reeds, scourges, a cross.[775] [Footnote 775: Jean Philippe de Lignan, Rome, 1481 (not paginated), leaf 10 and the following.

For the comparison of Jeanne d'Arc to the ancient Sibyl, see the Clerk of Spire, _Sibylla Francica_, in the _Trial_, vol.iii, p.422.Christine de Pisano in the _Trial_, vol.v, p.12.Lanery d'Arc, _Memoires et consultations en faveur de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp.

8-10.

Barbier de Montault, _Iconographie des Sibylles_, in the _Revue de l'art chretien_, xiii-xiv (1869-1870).


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