ght must catch her--namely, permission to receive the
Communion: 'As,' he said, 'you desire the Eucharist, will you, if you
are allowed to do so, submit yourself to the Church?'

To this offer Joan answered: 'As to that submission I can give no
other answer than that I have already given you. I love God; Him I
serve, as a good Christian should. Were I able I would help the Church
with all my strength.'

'But,' said Cauchon, 'if we were to order a grand procession to
restore your health, then would you not submit yourself?'

'I only request,' she answered, 'that the Church and all good
Catholics will pray for me.'

Some of the judges had suggested that, in a more public place than in
her prison, Joan of Arc should be again admonished relating to the
crimes of which she was accused; and Cauchon accordingly summoned a
public meeting of the judges for the 2nd of May, to be held in a
chamber near the Great Hall.

On that day sixty-two judges were present. Cauchon took care that the
actual charges contained in the twelve articles which had been sent to
the University should not be read in the presence of the prisoner, and
told her that she had only been summoned in order to receive another
admonition before a larger assemblage than had as yet met.

In his opening allocution he told his audience that the private
admonition had been unattended with good results, that Joan had
refused to submit herself to the Church, and that he had accordingly
invited to the present meeting a learned doctor of theology, namely,
John de Chatillon, archdeacon of Evreux, whose eloquence he doubted
not would have a beneficial effect upon the stubbornness of the
prisoner.

On Joan being led into the room, the Bishop admonished her to listen
to what Chatillon would now lay before her, and to agree to what he
would advise. If she would not do so, he added, she would place
herself in jeopardy, both as to her body and as to her soul.

Chatillon then took up his parable, which was to the effect that all
faithful Christians must conform to the tenets of the Church; and that
he trusted she would do so to all that the doctors lay and spiritual
there present expected her.

The Archdeacon held a digest of his sermon in his hand. Seeing this,
Joan of Arc requested him to read his book, after which, she said, she
would make her answer.

The speech, or sermon, that he then delivered was an exhaustive
examination of the twelve articles, brought under