lmost persuaded that the Maid's fifty thousand shadows had
taken Saint-Pierre-le-Moustier.

[Footnote 1840: _Ibid._, p. 218.]

With the little army on the Loire at that time were certain holy women
who like Jeanne led a singular life and held communion with the Church
Triumphant. They constituted, so to speak, a kind of flying squadron
of _beguines_, which followed the men-at-arms. One of these women was
called Catherine de La Rochelle; two others came from Lower
Brittany.[1841]

[Footnote 1841: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 106. _Journal d'un bourgeois de
Paris_, pp. 259, 260, 271, 272. Nider, _Formicarium_, in _Trial_, vol.
iv, pp. 503, 504. J. Quicherat, _Apercus nouveaux_, pp. 74 _et seq._
N. Quellien, _Perrinaic, une compagne de Jeanne d'Arc_, Paris, 1891,
in 8vo. Mme. Pascal-Estienne, _Perrinaik_, Paris, 1893, in 8vo. J.
Trevedy, _Histoire du roman de Perrinaic_, Saint-Brieuc, 1894, in 8vo.
_Le roman de Perrinaic_, Vannes, 1894, in 8vo. A. de la Borderie,
_Pierronne et Perrinaic_, Paris, 1894, in 8vo.]

They all had miraculous visions; Jeanne saw my Lord Saint Michael in
arms and Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret wearing crowns;[1842]
Pierronne beheld God in a long white robe and a purple cloak;[1843]
Catherine de La Rochelle saw a white lady, clothed in cloth of gold;
and, at the moment of the consecration of the host all manner of
marvels of the high mystery of Our Lord were revealed unto her.[1844]

[Footnote 1842: _Trial_, vol. v, index at the words _Catherine_,
_Michel_, _Marguerite_.]

[Footnote 1843: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 106.]

[Footnote 1844: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, pp. 271, 272.]

Jean Pasquerel was still with Jeanne in the capacity of chaplain.[1845]
He hoped to take his penitent to fight in the Crusade against the
Hussites, for it was against these heretics that he felt most
bitterly. But he had been entirely supplanted by the Franciscan, Friar
Richard, who, after Troyes, had joined the mendicants of Jeanne's
earlier days. Friar Richard dominated this little band of the
illuminated. He was called their good Father. He it was who instructed
them.[1846] His designs for these women did not greatly differ from
those of Jean Pasquerel: he intended to conduct them to those wars of
the Cross, which he thought were bound to precede the impending end of
the world.[1847]

[Footnote 1845: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 104 _et seq._]

[Footnote 1846: _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 450. _Journal d'un bourgeois de
Paris