Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
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She was then asked, if she would have no judge on earth and if our
Holy Father the Pope were not her judge; she answered: "I will tell you nothing more. I have a good master, that is our Lord, on whom I depend for everything, and not an any other." She was then told that if she would not believe the Church and the article _Ecclesiam sanctam Catholicam_, that she might be reckoned as a heretic and punished by burning: to which she answered: "I can say nothing else to you; and if I saw the fire before me, I should say only that which I say, and could do nothing else." (Once more at this point the clerk writes on his margin, "Proud reply"--_Superba responsio_--but whether in admiration or in blame it would be hard to say.) Asked, if the Council General, or the Holy Father, Cardinals, etc., were there--whether she would submit to them. "You shall have no other answer from me," she said. Asked, if she would submit to our Holy Father the Pope: she answered, "Take me to him and I will answer him," but would say no more. Questioned in respect to her dress, she answered, that she would willingly accept a long dress and a woman's hood to go to church to receive her Saviour, provided that, as she had already said, she were allowed to wear it on that occasion only, and then to take back that which she at present wore. Further, when it was set before her that she wore that dress without any need, being in prison, she answered, "When I have done that for which I was sent by God, I will then take back a woman's dress." Asked, if she thought she did well in being dressed like a man, she answered, "I refer every thing to our Lord." |
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