378.] [Footnote 462: That Saint Catherine was known in the west shortly before the Crusades is possible, but not that her worship should date back to Charles Martel; at any rate it flourished in the days of Jeanne d'Arc.

_Cf._ H.Moranville, _Un pelerinage en Terre sainte et au Sinai au XV'e siecle_, in the _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_, vol.lxvi (1905), pp.

70 _et seq._] In those days it was not uncommon for saints of both sexes, if they had suffered from some unjust neglect, to come and complain to some pious person of the wrong being done them on earth.

They appeared possibly to a monk, to a peasant or a citizen, denounced the impiety of the faithful in terms urgent and sometimes violent, and commanded him to reinstate their worship and restore their sanctuary.

And this is what Madame Saint Catherine did.