fulness scandalized the
doctors and masters of the University, who reproached the hapless Maid
herself with it. "Jeanne," they said, "hath so seduced the Catholic
people, that many have adored her as a saint in her presence, and now
in her absence they adore her still."[2043]

[Footnote 2041: Vallet de Viriville, _Note sur deux medailles de plomb
relatives a Jeanne d'Arc_, Paris, 1861, in 8vo, 30 pages. Forgeais,
_Notice sur les plombs histories trouves dans la Seine_, Paris, 1860,
in 8vo. J. Quicherat, _Medaille frappee en l'honneur de la Pucelle,
Six dessins sur Jeanne d'Arc tires d'un manuscrit du XV'e siecle_,
in _L'autographe_, No. 24, 15 Nov., 1864.]

[Footnote 2042: P. Lanery d'Arc, _Le culte de Jeanne d'Arc au XV'e
siecle_, Paris, 1887, in 8vo, 29 pages.]

[Footnote 2043: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 290.]

This was indeed true of many folk and many places. The councillors of
the town of Tours ordered public prayers to be offered for the
deliverance of the Maid. There was a public procession in which took
part the canons of the cathedral church, the clergy of the town,
secular and regular, all walking barefoot.[2044]

[Footnote 2044: Carreau, _Histoire manuscrite de Touraine_, in
_Proces_, vol. v, pp. 253, 254.]

In the towns of Dauphine prayers for the Maid were said at mass.

"_Collect._ O God, all powerful and eternal, who, in thy holy and
ineffable mercy, hast commanded the Maid to restore and deliver the
realm of France, and to repulse, confound and annihilate her enemies,
and who hast permitted her, in the accomplishment of this holy work,
ordained by thee, to fall into the hands and into the bonds of her
enemies, we beseech thee, by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin
Mary and of all the saints to deliver her out of their hands, without
her having suffered any hurt, in order that she may finish the work
whereto thou hast sent her."

"For the sake of Jesus Christ, etc."

"_Secret._ O God all powerful, Father of virtues, let thy holy
benediction descend upon this sacrifice; let thy wondrous power be
made manifest, that by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and
of all the saints, it may deliver the Maid from the prisons of the
enemy so that she may finish the work whereto thou hast sent her.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, etc."

"_Post Communion._ O God all powerful, incline thine ear and listen
unto the prayers of thy people: by the virtue of the Sacrament we have
just received, by the inter