etter indicates one of those hopes which among others she
inspired. They expected that after she had fulfilled her mission in
France, she would take the cross and go forth to conquer Jerusalem,
bringing all the armies of Christian Europe in her train.[891] At this
very time a disciple of Bernardino of Siena, Friar Richard, a
Franciscan lately come from Syria,[892] and who was shortly to meet
the Maid, was preaching at Paris, announcing the approach of the end
of the world, and exhorting the faithful to fight against
Antichrist.[893] It must be remembered that the Turks, who had
conquered the Christian knights at Nicopolis and at Semendria, were
threatening Constantinople and spreading terror throughout Europe.
Popes, emperors, kings felt the necessity of making one great effort
against them.

[Footnote 891: Morosini, vol. iii, pp. 64, 82 _et seq._ Christine de
Pisan, in the _Trial_, vol. v, p. 16. Concerning the subject of the
Crusade, cf. N. Jorga, Philippe de Mezieres, 1896, in 8vo: _Notes et
extraits pour servir a l'histoire des Croisades au XV'e siecle_,
Paris, 1899-1902, 3 vols. in 8vo (taken from _La revue de l'Orient
Latin_).]

[Footnote 892: _Pii Secundi commentarii_, 1614 edition, p. 440.
Wadding, _Annales Minorum_, vol. v, pp. 130 _et seq._]

[Footnote 893: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 233. S. Luce,
_Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, pp. xv, ccxxxvii. See the pictures in the
numerous fifteenth century little popular books concerning Antichrist.
(Brunet, _Manuel du libraire_, vol. i, col. 316.)]

In England it was said that between Saint-Denys and Saint-George there
had been born to King Henry V and Madame Catherine of France a boy,
half English and half French, who would go to Egypt and pluck the
Grand Turk's beard.[894] On his death-bed the conqueror Henry V was
listening to the priests repeating the penitential psalms. When he
heard the verse: _Benigne fac Domine in bona voluntate tua ut
aedificentur muri Jerusalem_, he murmured with his dying breath: "I
have always intended to go to Syria and deliver the holy city out of
the hand of the infidel."[895] These were his last words. Wise men
counselled Christian princes to unite against the Crescent. In France,
the Archbishop of Embrun, who had sat in the Dauphin's Council, cursed
the insatiable cruelty of the English nation and those wars among
Christians which were an occasion of rejoicing to the enemies of the
Cross of Christ.[896]

[Footnote 894: Feli