ying is, the greater
reason have you to amend your life; if you do not submit yourself to
the Church, then you will not obtain the privilege of a Catholic to
its Sacraments.'

To this she answered: 'If I die here in prison, I trust my body will
be placed in consecrated earth. If you refuse me this favour, I can
but appeal to my Saviour!'

'You said,' quoth Cauchon, 'during the trial that if you had done or
said anything that was against our Christian faith you could not
support it!'

'I refer myself,' said Joan, 'to the answer I then made, and to our
Lord!'

'You said,' continued the Bishop, 'that you had received many
revelations both from God and from the saints. Suppose, then, that now
some worthy person were to appear, declaring that they had received a
revelation from God about your deeds, would you believe that person?'

To this the prisoner replied: 'There is not a Christian on earth, who,
coming to me and saying that he came by such revelation, I should not
know whether to believe or not, for I should know whether he were true
or false by Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret.'

'But,' said Cauchon, 'do you imagine then that God is not able to
reveal to some one besides yourself things that you may be ignorant
about?'

Joan answered: 'Without a sign, I should not believe man or woman.'

Then Cauchon asked Joan if she believed in the holy Scriptures?

'You know that I do,' she answered.

Then the Bishop again returned to the question whether or not the
prisoner consented to submit herself to the Church Militant, by which
the Church Temporal should be understood.

Now, as before, Joan of Arc's answer was unchanged.

'Whatever,' she said, 'may happen to me, I shall neither do nor say
anything further than that I have already declared during the trial.'

In vain all the venerable doctors present exhorted the prisoner to
make her submission; they quoted Scripture, chapter and verse, to her
(Matt. xviii.), without obtaining any more success than the Bishop had
done.

As they were leaving the prison one of these 'venerable doctors'
hissed to Joan: 'If you refuse to submit to the Church, the Church
will abandon you as if you were a Saracen.'

To this Joan of Arc replied: 'I am a good Christian--a Christian born
and baptized--and a Christian I shall die.'

Before Cauchon left his victim he made one further attempt to obtain a
decided answer from Joan of Arc, this time making use of a bait which
he thou