Father, thou who by the mouth of a child didst appoint me their shepherd, grant that they fall not into the hands of the enemy." The inhabitants of Orleans expected that the Lord would not at once answer the prayers of the two confessors.

Knowing the sternness of his judgments they feared lest he would reply: "For their sins are the French people justly chastised.

They suffer because of their disobedience to Holy Church.

From the least to the greatest in the realm each vies with the other in evil-doing.

The husbandmen, citizens, lawyers and priests are hard and avaricious; the princes, dukes and noble lords are proud, vain, cursers, swearers, and traitors.