14 _et seq._] [Footnote 804: _Le Jouvencel_, vol.i, Introduction, p.

xxii, note 1.] In Jean du Puy's house, Jeanne was visited by an Augustinian monk, one Jean Pasquerel.

He was returning from the town of Puy-en-Velay where he had met Isabelle Romee and certain of those who had conducted Jeanne to the King.[805] [Footnote 805: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

101.] In this town, in the sanctuary of Anis, was preserved an image of the Mother of God, brought from Egypt by Saint Louis.

It was of great antiquity and highly venerated, for the prophet Jeremiah had with his own hands carved it out of sycamore wood in the semblance of the virgin yet to be born, whom he had seen in a vision.[806] In holy week, pilgrims flocked from all parts of France and of Europe,--nobles, clerks, men-at-arms, citizens and peasants; and many, for penance or through poverty, came on foot, staff in hand, begging their bread from door to door.