461.] Under the chapel, in the crypt, there was an image of the Virgin, ancient and deeply venerated, called Notre-Dame-de-la-Voute.[393] It worked miracles, but especially on behalf of the poor and needy.
Jeanne delighted to remain in this dark and lonely crypt, where the saints preferred to visit her.
[Footnote 393: S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p.

cxcxiv.] One day a young clerk, barely more than a child, who waited in the chapel, saw the damsel motionless, with hands clasped, head thrown back, eyes full of tears raised to heaven; and as long as he lived the vision of that rapture remained imprinted on his mind.[394] [Footnote 394: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.

460, 461 (evidence of Jean le Fumeux in the rehabilitation trial).] She confessed often, usually to Jean Fournier, priest of Vaucouleurs.[395] [Footnote 395: _Ibid._, p.

446.] Her hostess was touched by the goodness and gentleness of her manner of life; but she was profoundly agitated when one day the damsel said to her: "Dost thou not know it hath been prophesied that France ruined by a woman shall be saved by a maiden from the Lorraine Marches ?" Leroyer's wife knew as well as Durand Lassois that Madame Ysabeau, as full of wickedness as Herodias, had delivered up Madame Catherine of France and the Kingdom of the Lilies to the King of England.

And henceforth she was almost persuaded to believe that Jeanne was the maid announced by the prophecy.[396] [Footnote 396: _Ibid._, p.