wondrous marks on his
body. Like Saint Francis he had received the stigmata; and on his
hands, his feet and in his side were bleeding wounds.[2050]

[Footnote 2050: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 272. Lefevre de
Saint-Remy, vol. ii, p. 263. Martial d'Auvergne, _Vigiles_, vol. i, p.
124.]

The mendicant monks rejoiced that their spiritual father had thus
participated in the Passion of Our Lord. A like grace had been granted
to the Blessed Catherine of Sienna, of the order of Saint Dominic.
But if there were miraculous stigmata imprinted by Jesus Christ
himself, there were also the stigmata of enchantment, which were the
work of the Devil, and very important was it to distinguish between
the two.[2051] It could only be done by great knowledge and great
piety. It would appear that Guillaume's stigmata were not the work of
the devil; for it was resolved to employ him in the same manner as
Jeanne, as Catherine de la Rochelle, and as the two Breton women, the
spiritual daughters of Friar Richard.

[Footnote 2051: A. Maury, _La stigmatisation et les stigmates_, in
_Revue des Deux Mondes_, 1854, ch. viii, pp. 454-482. Dr. Subled, _Les
stigmates selon la science_, in _Science catholique_, 1894, vol. viii,
pp. 1073 _et seq._; vol. ix, pp. 2 _et seq._]

When the Maid fell into the hands of the Burgundians, the Sire de la
Tremouille was with the King, on the Loire, where fighting had ceased
since the disastrous siege of La Charite. He sent the shepherd youth
to the banks of the Oise, to the Lord Archbishop of Reims, who was
there opposing the Burgundians, commanded by Duke Philip, himself.
Messire Regnault had probably asked for the boy. In any case he
welcomed him willingly and kept him at Beauvais, supervising and
interrogating him, ready to use him at an auspicious moment. One day,
either to try him or because the rumour was really in circulation,
young Guillaume was told that the English had put Jeanne to death.

"Then," said he, "it will be the worse for them."[2052]

[Footnote 2052: Letter from Regnault de Chartres, in _Trial_, vol. v,
p. 168.]

By this time, after all the rivalries and jealousies which had torn
asunder this company of the King's _beguines_, there remained to Friar
Richard one only of his penitents, Dame Catherine of La Rochelle, who
had the gift of discovering hidden treasure.[2053] The young shepherd
approved of the Maid as little as Dame Catherine had done.

[Footnote 2053: _Trial_, vol. i