Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
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the part of God." She also said that no one was to blame for her acts
and words, neither her King nor any other; and if there were faults in them, the blame was hers and no other's. Asked, if she would renounce all that she had done wrong; answered, "I refer everything to God and to our Holy Father the Pope." It was then told her that this was not enough, and that our Holy Father was too far off; also that the Ordinaries were judges each in his diocese, and it was necessary that she should submit to our Mother the Holy Church, and that she should confess that the clergy and officers of the Church had a right to determine in her case. And of this she was admonished three times. After this the Bishop began to read the definitive sentence. When a great part of it was read, Jeanne began to speak and said that she would hold to all that the judges and the Church said, and obey in everything their ordinance and will. And there in the presence of the above-named and of the great multitude assembled she made her abjuration in the manner that follows: And she said several times that since the Church said her apparitions and revelations should not be sustained or believed, she would not sustain them; but in everything submit to the judges and to our Mother the Holy Church. ***** In this strange, brief, subdued manner is the formal record made. Manchon writes on his margin: _At the end of the sentence Jeanne, |
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