The first made shipwreck on the rustic Aimery, and therefore the second burned more fiercely.

She had the promise from the saints that her line had a great destiny, and the form of it she took to be sanctitude.

For, all her married days she had ruled her life according to the canons of God, fasting and praying, cherishing the poor, tending the afflicted, giving of her great wealth bountifully to the Church.

She had a name for holiness as far as the coasts of Italy.

Surely from the blood of Beaumanoir one would arise to be in dark times a defender of the Faith, a champion of Christ whom after death the Church should accept among the beatified.