69.] [Footnote 823: _Trial_, vol.i, p.77._Les miracles de madame sainte Katerine_, _passim_.] It is certain, however, that she believed the sword had been shown to her in a vision and in no other manner.

An armourer of Touraine, whom she did not know (afterwards she maintained that she had never seen him), was appointed to carry the letter to Fierbois.

The custodians of the chapel gave him a sword marked with five crosses, or with five little swords on the blade, not far from the hilt.

In what part of the chapel had they found it?
No one knows.

A contemporary says it was in a coffer with some old iron.