:

"I take as my text the words of God in the Gospel of Saint John,
chapter xv: 'The branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide
in the vine.'[2459] Thus it behoveth all Catholics to remain abiding in
Holy Mother Church, the true vine, which the hand of Our Lord Jesus
Christ hath planted. Now this Jeanne, whom you see before you, falling
from error into error, and from crime into crime, hath become separate
from the unity of Holy Mother Church and in a thousand manners hath
scandalised Christian people."

[Footnote 2459: _Ibid._, p. 444. E. Richer, _Histoire manuscrite de la
Pucelle d'Orleans_, bk. i, fol. 8; bk. ii, fol. 198, v'o.]

Then he reproached her with having failed, with having sinned against
royal Majesty and against God and the Catholic Faith; and all these
things must she henceforth eschew under pain of death by burning.

He declaimed vehemently against the pride of this woman. He said that
never had there appeared in France a monster so great as that which
was manifest in Jeanne; that she was a witch, a heretic, a schismatic,
and that the King, who protected her, risked the same reproach from
the moment that he became willing to recover his throne with the help
of such a heretic.[2460]

[Footnote 2460: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 61.]

Towards the middle of his sermon, he cried out with a loud voice:

"Ah! right terribly hast thou been deceived, noble house of France,
once the most Christian of houses! Charles, who calls himself thy head
and assumes the title of King hath, like a heretic and schismatic,
received the words of an infamous woman, abounding in evil works and
in all dishonour. And not he alone, but all the clergy in his lordship
and dominion, by whom this woman, so she sayeth, hath been examined
and not rejected. Full sore is the pity of it."[2461]

[Footnote 2461: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 15, 17.]

Two or three times did Maitre Guillaume repeat these words concerning
King Charles. Then pointing at Jeanne with his finger he said:

"It is to you, Jeanne, that I speak; and I say unto you that your King
is a heretic and a schismatic."

At these words Jeanne was deeply wounded in her love for the Lilies of
France and for King Charles. She was moved with great feeling, and she
heard her Voices saying unto her:

"Reply boldly to the preacher who is preaching to you."[2462]

[Footnote 2462: _Ibid._, vol. i, pp. 456, 457. U. Chevalier,
_L'abjuration de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp. 46, 47.]

Then