xii.] [Footnote 807: Jean Juvenal des Ursins, 1407.] In certain years the feast of the conception of Our Lord fell on the same day as that of his death; and thus there coincided the promise and the fulfilment of the promise of the greatest of mysteries.

Then Holy Friday became still holier.

It was called Great Friday, and on that day such as entered the sanctuary of Anis received plenary indulgence.

On that day the crowd of pilgrims was greater than usual.
Now, in the year 1429, Good Friday fell on the 25th of March, the day of the Annunciation.[808] [Footnote 808: Nicole de Savigni, _Notes sur les exploits de Jeanne d'Arc et sur divers evenements de son temps_, in the _Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de Paris_, 1, 1874, p.43.Chanoine Lucot, _Jeanne d'Arc en Champagne_, Chalons, 1880, pp.

12, 13.] There is, therefore, nothing extraordinary in Brother Pasquerel's meeting Jeanne's relatives at Puy during Holy Week.