JEANNE'S VOICES Now, when she was about thirteen, it befell one summer day, at noon, that while she was in her father's garden she heard a voice that filled her with a great fear.

It came from the right, from towards the church, and at the same time in the same direction there appeared a light.

The voice said: "I come from God to help thee to live a good and holy life.[254] Be good, Jeannette, and God will aid thee." [Footnote 254: _Trial_, vol.i, pp.

52, 72, 73, 89, 170.] It is well known that fasting conduces to the seeing of visions.
Jeanne was accustomed to fast.

Had she abstained from food that morning and if so when had she last partaken of it?
We cannot say.[255] [Footnote 255: The manuscript runs: _non jejunaverat die praecedenti_.
Quicherat omits _non_.