28/67 L.de Kerval, _Jeanne d'Arc et les Franciscains_, Vanves, 1893, in 18mo. _E iera begina_, says a correspondent of Morosini, edited by Lefevre-Pontalis, vol.iii, p. 92 and note 2.] Such an inference is very doubtful; and in any case the affiliation cannot have been very ceremonious. It is difficult to see how in so short a time the friars could have instructed her in the practices of Franciscan piety. She was far too imbued with ecclesiastical notions concerning the spiritual and the temporal power, she was too full of mysteries and revelations to imbibe their spirit. |