To persuade him to do so they had recourse to the exhortations of a saint, who had revelations from Heaven, and who called herself the Daughter of God.

By these persons the damsel of Domremy was represented to the enfeebled old Duke as being a saint who worked miracles of healing.

By their advice he had her summoned in the hope that she possessed secrets which should alleviate his sufferings and keep him alive.
As soon as he saw her he asked whether she could not restore him to his former health and strength.
She replied that "of such things" she knew nothing.

But she warned him that his ways were evil, and that he would not be cured until he had amended them.

She enjoined upon him to send away Alison, his concubine, and to take back his good wife.[432] [Footnote 432: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.87.Dom Calmet, _Histoire de Lorraine_, vol.iii, proofs and illustrations, col.