600 Yrs January 6th 1412-January 6th 2012: Joan of Arc~A Bishop in Great Peril [Series on the Life of Jeanne d' Arc]

[Dawn Marie]

600
Joan of Arc
A bishop in great peril

Jeanne d'Arc was born in Domrémy, a village divided, at the time of her birth, between the Royal domain of Barrois and the Crown territories of the County of Champagne - a fully French town. Her birth took place on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 1412, exactly six centuries ago.

This special centennial will be celebrated by us in a series of posts, including special contributions by Côme de Prévigny - and it also explains our header image. And we begin with the first days of the proceedings against the nineteen-year-old Maid, in 1431.

[Wednesday, February 21st. The First Public Session]

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As it is our office to keep and exalt the Catholic faith, we did first, with the gentle succor of Jesus Christ (whose issue this is), charitably admonish and require the said Jeanne, then seated before us, that to the quicker ending of the present trial and the unburdening of her own conscience, she should answer the whole truth to the questions put to her upon these matters of faith, eschewing subterfuge and shift which hinder truthful confession.

Moreover, according to our office, we lawfully required the said Jeanne to take proper oath, with her hands on the holy gospels, to speak the truth in answer to such questions put to her, as beforesaid.

The said Jeanne replied in this manner: "I do not know what you wish to examine me on. Perhaps you might ask such things that I would not tell." Whereupon we said: "Will you swear to speak the truth upon those things which are asked you concerning the faith, which you know?" She replied that concerning her father and her mother and what she had done since she had taken the road to France, she would gladly swear; but concerning the revelations from God, these she had never told or revealed to any one, save only to Charles whom she called King; nor would she reveal them to save her head; for she had them in visions or in her secret counsel; and within a week she would know certainly whether she might reveal them.

Thereupon, and repeatedly, we, the aforementioned bishop [of Beauvais], admonished and required her to take an oath to speak the truth in those things which concerned our faith. The said Jeanne, kneeling, and with her two hands upon the book, namely the missal, swore to answer truthfully whatever should be asked her, which she knew, concerning matters of faith, and was silent with regard to the said condition, that she would not tell or reveal to any person the revelations made to her.

[First Inquiry after the oath]

When she had thus taken the oath the said Jeanne was questioned by us about her name and her surname. To which she replied that in her own country she was called Jeannette, and after she came to France, she was called Jeanne. Of her surname she said she knew nothing. Consequently she was questioned about the district from which she came. She replied she was born in the village of Domrémy, which is one with the village of Greux; and in Greux is the principal church.

Asked about the name of her father and mother, she replied that her father's name was Jacques d'Arc, and her mother's Isabelle.

Asked where she was baptized, she replied it was in the church of Domrémy.

Asked who were her godfathers and godmothers, she said one of her godmothers was named Agnes, another Jeanne, another Sibylle; of her godfathers, one was named Jean Lingué, another Jean Barrey: she had several other godmothers, she had heard her mother say.

Asked what priest had baptized her, she replied that it was master Jean Minet, as far as she knew.

Asked if he was still living, she said she believed he was.

Asked how old she was, she replied she thought nineteen. She said moreover that her mother taught her the Paternoster, Ave Maria and Credo; and that no one but her mother had taught her her Credo.

Asked by us to say her Paternoster, she replied that if we would hear her in confession then she would gladly say it for us. And as we repeatedly demanded that she should repeat it, she replied she would not say her Paternoster unless we would hear her in confession. Then we told her that we would gladly send one or two notable men, speaking the French tongue, to hear her say her Paternoster, etc.; to which Jeanne replied that she would not say it to them, except in confession.

[Prohibition against her leaving prison]

Whereupon we, the aforementioned bishop, forbade Jeanne to leave the prison assigned to her in the castle of Rouen without our authorization under penalty of conviction of the crime of heresy. She answered that she did not accept this prohibition, adding that if she escaped, none could accuse her of breaking or violating her oath, since she had given her oath to none. Then she complained that she was imprisoned with chains and bonds of iron. We told her that she had tried elsewhere and on several occasions to escape from prison, and therefore, that she might be more safely and securely guarded, an order had been given to bind her with chains of iron. To which she replied: "It is true that I wished and still wish to escape, as is lawful for any captive or prisoner."

We then commissioned as the safeguard of the said Jeanne the noble man John Grey, Squire, of the bodyguard of our lord the King, and with him Jean Berwoit and William Talbot, enjoining them to guard her well and faithfully, and to permit no person to speak with her without our order. Which, with their hands on the Gospel, they solemnly swore to do.

And finally, having completed all the preliminaries, we assigned the said Jeanne to appear the next day, Thursday, at eight o'clock in the morning, in the Robing Room at the end of the great hall of the castle of Rouen.

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[February 24th. Third Session]

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Then she said to us, the aforementioned bishop: "You say that you are my judge; take good heed of what you do, because, in truth, I am sent by God, and you put yourself in great peril,"

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Asked whether the voice, of which she asked counsel, had sight and eyes, she answered: "You will not learn that yet"; and said that there was a saying among little children, "Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth."

Asked if she knows she is in God's grace, she answered: "If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest creature in the world if I knew I were not in His grace."

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[Dawn Marie]

600
Joan of Arc :
I - The armor-clad Saint

6 janvier 1412 – 6 janvier 2012

A special guest-series by Côme de Prévigny

Joan of Arc (I) : The armor-clad Saint

What mysterious force could transform an ignorant shepherdess from the outskirts of a nation in agony into a warlord behind whom the despaired regained courage, after whom saints rebuilt a nation that deserved the title of "Eldest Daughter of the Church"? Saint Pius X declares it: "Called by the Lord to defend her fatherland, [Joan] responds to her vocation with an enterprise that the entire world - and herself, in the first place - considered impossible; but that which is impossible to men is always possible with the help of God."[1]

France in the early 15th century was bruised, dismembered, weakened by a century of war. Her titular sovereign [2] was nothing more than a misfortunate sire, envied by his vassals, who had been divested, by his mother, of the northern half of the country, sold to its English neighbors. It seemed to be the end of la belle France of Saint Louis when, on February 25, 1429, Joan presented herself before the dauphin Charles and affirmed to him that she had received the mission to deliver Orleans and to have him crowned at Rheims. She had miraculously overcome all obstacles: the concern of her mortified parents, the intense reticence of the sire of Vaucouleurs, the nocturnal crossings of enemy territory, the mockeries of the Crown's liegemen. Most jeered at the seventeen-year-old whose experience was limited to the guarding of sheep and who declared herself to be the bearer of a message of God revealed by Saint Michael and Saints Catherine and Margaret in person in person! "Chosen by God - Pius XII says-, the unwavering conscience of her mission, an ardent yearning for holiness, fed by the wish of best fulfilling her august vocation, will lead her to overcome obstacles, ignore dangers, confront the powerful of the earth, meddle in the international problems of the age, and even to transform herself in an ironclad captain, formidable, ready to storm." [3]

Her divine determination, examined by the tribunals of the Church, at last vanquished the king's hesitations, and the little shepherdess from Domrémy achieved victory after victory. The miserable French army turns into the bright elite corps that follow the heroine in her epic journey from Orleans to Rheims, through Jargeau, Patay, and Beaugency. Going to daily Mass, praying every day, going to confession and receing Communon very frequently, this friend of God and of the saints encoouraged her soldiers to the regular reception of the Sacraments, expelled from the army, wih great firmness, the women of ill-repute, and cared for the soul of each of her ennemies, by having them assisted by a priest. The warriors, used to a life of binging rather than to one of religion, and to fowl language more than to Communion, fell one after the other before the heavenly charm. "All marveled that, in military matters, she acted with as much wisdom and foresight as a captain who had fought for twenty or thirty years." (John II of Alençon). "Neither the others nor myself had bad thoughts when we were near her. In my opinion, there was something divine in that" (John of Orleans).

With the distrust of the king's counselors being overcome with time, the "Maid of Orleans" was made a prisoner near Compiègne by the Burgundians who decided to sell her to the English. The long calvary of Joan would then begin, condemned by a sham ecclesiastical procedure that rendered her to the civil power to be delivered, without verdict, to the flames. On May 30, 1431, she was burned alive in Rouen, but the geopolitical balance had been permanently reversed. The lady whose very presence at the head of the armies terrified the enemies, who believed her to have come from hell, had given hope back to the French, who reconquered all their territory in a few years. Less than one century later, the leavening of errors accumulated for years would plunge England in the darkness of Protestant error. What would have happened to France and to the Church of Rome if a Protestant power had remained in place surrounding the very heart of Catholic Europe? By the divine mission entrusted to Joan of Arc, God had providentially protected the Eldest Daughter of the Church.

Beatified in 1909 by Saint Pius X, the liberator of Orleans and of France was canonized by Benedict XV in 1920. The nineteen years she had spent here on earth make her an example of trust in Providence and of determination in acting in obedience to God: "The warmen will make battle, she said, but God will deliver victory."

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Notes:

[1] Saint Pius X, Address of December 13, 1908.

[2] Charles VII, king of France 1403-1461.

[3] Pius XII, Radio message to France, June 25, 1956.

[Dawn Marie]

[Cathleen]

We hear of her story so often but really need to *think* it over and realize the significance of all that St. Joan accomplished.  Thank you for posting this.

[Dawn Marie]

600
Joan of Arc :
II - The danger of ill-motivated Church authorities

6 janvier 1412 – 6 janvier 2012

A special guest-series by Côme de Prévigny

Joan of Arc (II) : A Saint in isolation

Joan interrogated in prison by His Eminence Henry Beaufort, 
Cardinal-Bishop of Winchester 
(Paul Delaroche)

"God takes great pity on the people of France. It is necessary that you, Joan, that you go to France," her voices repeated to her unceasingly. She said it time and again, both to her brothers in arms as to her judges: she would rather a thousand times to return to the house of her parents than to enlist in such a trying adventure. But God had entrusted to her a mission to which she would remain forever faithful during the two decades of her earthly existence. She was obedient to the point of death, and death at the stake. Before a life that is so brief, so oriented towards God, how to avoid seeing in her a Christlike figure, a bearer of lessons for our times?

The Johannic epic, following a life as hidden as it was bright, seems as ephemeral as the predication of Our Lord through Galilee and Judea. The fortifications opened up before the attacks of Joan's armies, as the villages of the Holy Land were convinced by the invincible preaching of Christ. And, nonetheless, the acclamations at the gates of the cities were as a prelude to a tragic outcome, in which the Maid was to go up to the stake as the Son of God had carried His Cross up to Golgotha. Joan, the young shepherdess from Lorraine, was inhabited by God. Even amidst combats, she wandered away to kneel down and find council from the Creator. Jesus, the son of a carpenter, frequently withdrew from the band of his disciples in order to speak, face to face, with His Father.

The trial for sorcery started in Rouen against Joan was iniquitous. And yet it assembled the entire Establishment of the official Church. One hundred and twenty men took part in it, including a Cardinal, a prince of the Church, a great number of bishops, dozens of canons, sixty doctors in Canon Law or Theology, ten abbots, ten representatives of the University of Paris, the brightest part of ecclesiastical science in the heart of Christendom. In their presence, the shepherdess, despite her replied filled with common sense and inspired by the Holy Spirit, was condemned in advance, as the son of the carpenter seemed condemned beforehand when summoned to appear before the Sanhedrin. In the presence of this sign of contradiction, the English applied such an intense pressure on the court presided by the Bishop of Beauvais that it recalled that of the people used by the Hebraic authorities and who greatly influenced the decision of Pontius Pilate. Alas, not even the ecclesiastical authorities are protected from yielding to ideology, power, or the opinions of the age, to the detriment of the common good, and in such cases their verdicts, far from expressing the will of God, simply betray the mandate that was given to them.

In the course of Joan's trial, among those who used the most sacred titles in order to utter sentences that were true abuses of authority, there were plotters, such as the Count of Warwick, such as Pierre Cauchon, who made every effort to obtain death for Joan. After the English wardens had ensnared her and made her wear man's clothes in order to prevent their assaults, the Bishop of Beauvais rejoiced: "She has been caught," [4] he said to those around him, elated for finding a reason to sacrifice her on the altar of human whims. Also among these authorities were the adulators, the cowards who paved the way for the accusation, such as Abbot of Fécamp, who, not without incurring in false humility, presented himself as uncapable of speaking up after "doctors so numerous and so great that their like cannot perhaps be found in the universe" [5]. As Pontius Pilate, he washed his hands, thus giving support to the worst informers. It happens similarly in the course of the passion of the Church, with those who suffered in silence and with those who above all expected the direct condemnation of the defenders of traditional doctrine. The court that condemned Christ proceeded in the same way. Both judge and party, it delivered an unappealable decision. Discarding the most elementary rules of justice, it heard only the accusers and grasped at the most irrelevant details to soothe the hatred of Salome's heirs, who, moved by a hateful whim, one day demanded a head on a plate!
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Notes:

[4] Transcript of the trial of Joan of Arc, Deposition of Friar Isambard de la Pierre, O.P.

[5] Transcript of the trial of Joan of Arc, 44th session, April 12, 1431.

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[Dawn Marie]

[Dawn Marie]

QUOTE: Alas, not even the ecclesiastical authorities are protected from yielding to ideology, power, or the opinions of the age, to the detriment of the common good, and in such cases their verdicts, far from expressing the will of God, simply betray the mandate that was given to them.

In the course of Joan's trial, among those who used the most sacred titles in order to utter sentences that were true abuses of authority...

It all boggles the mind!  I've read many books but if I had to pick 3 I thought were the most profound (and even life changing, I would say they are:

The Martyrs of the Colosseum

The Crucifixion of Christ

The Retrial of Joan of Arc

The retrial of St Joan was the actual transcript, word for word of all the witnesses.  Reading it you felt like you were there in a courtroom.  I was stunned at the bold faced arrogance of the bishops who killed Joan.  Even after her death they had not an ounce of remorse in their bones for what they had done.  They show up at her retrial and maintained their lies even when it was painfully obvious they were lying.  Haughty, prideful arrogance.

As for Joan, her life and death never cease to amaze me.  To be killed by the enemies of Christ is something the human mind can easily comprehend, but to be killed by the men of the Church, the Church she loved with all her heart had to be more painful than anything she could imagine, even being captured by the English.  In her retrial she was quoted in her last conversation moments before her death, as screaming at the bishop who was condemning her " I would not be going to my death if it were not for you". 

Sweet St. Joan pray for us!

[Dawn Marie]

[Dawn Marie]

	January 6 - Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
	A Sudden Burst of Joy On January 6, 1412, Archbishop Debout wrote that the residents of Domrémy, France, went home after attending the services of the great feast of the Epiphany. Suddenly, in every home, for no apparent reason for it to take place, a burst of joy permeated people's hearts. Startled, the villagers wondered what was happening, opened their doors and stood on the threshold of their cottages, looking up to the sky. Their efforts were in vain: nothing in the sky explained why they all felt such happiness. And then even animals that cannot reason began to share the exuberance: roosters flapped their wings and went cock-a-doodle-doo for two hours. What was going on? Joan of Arc was born. She was the divine answer to the supplications that kings and the people had been making for a century. "I came to the King of France from the Blessed Virgin Mary," Joan said to her judges. Her childhood home is a rustic shrine outside Domrémy: Our Lady of Bermont.
	The Virgin Mary in the History of France by the Marquis de la Franquerie

[Dawn Marie]

600
Joan of Arc :
III - Persecution by the Church hierarchy as a road to sanctification

6 janvier 1412 – 6 janvier 2012

A special guest-series by Côme de Prévigny

Joan of Arc (III) : A Saint under excommunication

The river Seine runs through Rouen, site of Joan's execution. Following the Saint's burning at the stake, by order of the ecclesiastical court headed by the Bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, Cardinal Henry Beaufort ordered that her bones and ashes be thrown into the river, never to be found.  Joan of Arc was born exactly 600 years ago today, on January 6, 1412. (Image: mdxdt - CC.)

Left alone, Joan felt herself wavering. At the cemetery of Saint-Ouen, near Rouen Cathedral, before people and court, she signed in her last days an act of abjuration that had been presented to her and that she had not read, by placing under pressure a cross which represented, according to different interpretations, either acceptance or invalidation. On the following day, however, she retracted, and trusted in the need to conform to her voices. Even the greatest saints can feel tempted to be discouraged. It is nonetheless in their ability to rise up in such a situation that we recognize their spiritual strength and the heroic character of their virtues. Was not the Savior himself tempted in the Garden of Olives, before letting out a cry of sufferance, "Father, Father, why have you forsaken me?"

But the supreme sacrifice was at hand. Joan was condemned to death. The sentence of excommunication is read to her, with the solemn form that the representatives of the Church conferred upon it. She climbs up the steps of the platform where was located the fire that was to consume her, officially condemned by the Holy Inquisition whose guardians indicated to her in the verdict, with the hypocrisy that was to be expected, that they sincerely thought that she, Joan, should have "preferred to remain faithfully and constantly in the communion, as well as in the unity of the Catholic Church and of the Roman Pontiff." [6] On her was placed a headgear on which the points of condemnation, that her detractors repeated unceasingly, were written: "heretic, schismatic, relapser". What pain is more vicious for the true servants of the Church than that of feeling isolated at the end of their lives, rejected by their authorities at the same time in which places of honor are often granted to those who mistreat the essential truths of the Faith? Jesus Christ, abandoned by his disciples, had not himself been condemned to be crucified, at the same time in which Barabbas, the worst of criminals, was liberated?


Joan climbs up towards martyrdom. Her skin would crimson, her hair would burn, her limbs would be carbonized by the flames, and already some of her accusers, such as Loyseleur, approached hastily the cart taking her to the place of her torment to ask her to grant them her pardon. Faced with such holiness, her distraught executioner  ran off and fell on his knees before a Friar Preacher: "I strongly fear I will be damned because I have burned a saint," a final confession that recalls the biblical words prefiguring the attitude of those who crucified Our Lord: "They shall look upon him, whom they have pierced".

A quarter-century after her death, the cause of the heroine of Orleans was revisited and the Church rehabilitated her officially. Until then, the number of those who believed that it was forbidden to judge the verdicts of the representatives of the ecclesiastical Institution was large. Pius XII celebrated this dignified end of a French heroine who was to one day obtain on earth, as she had in heaven, the crown of saints: "In the silence, the words of a martyr faithful to her vocation resonate, filled with faith in the Church, to which she appealed by invoking the sweetest name of Jesus, her only consolation. Through the flames that rise up, she stares at the Cross, certain that she will one day obtain justice." [8]

Is not Saint Augustine referring to the beautiful characters forged in Joan's image in these lines? "Often, too, Divine Providence permits even good men to be driven from the congregation of Christ by the turbulent seditions of carnal men. When, for the sake of the peace of the Church, they patiently endure that insult or injury, and attempt no novelties in the way of heresy and schism, they will teach men how God is to be served with a true disposition and with great and sincere charity. The intention of such men is to return when the tumult has subsided. But, if that is not permitted because the storm continues or because a fiercer one might be stirred up by their return, they hold fast to their purpose to look to the good even of those responsible for the tumults and commotions that drove them out: and, without forming secret congregations, they defend to the death and confirm by their testimony the faith which they know is preached in the Catholic Church. The One who sees their secret combats crowns their victory in secret. This situation seems rare in the Church, but it is not without precedent, it presents itself more often than it can be believed. So Divine Providence uses all kinds of men as examples for the sanctification of souls and for the edification of the people of God." [9]

[Part I: A Saint in armor]
[Part II: A Saint in isolation]
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Notes:
[6] Transcript of the trial of Joan of Arc, 56th session, May 30, 1431.
[7] Transcript of the trial of Joan of Arc, ibidem.
[8] Pius XII, Radio message to France, June 25, 1956.
[9] Saint Augustine, On True Religion, VI, 11.

[Alan]

1412-2012, St. Joan of Arc, herald of the social kingship of Jesus Christ

13-01-2012
Filed under Documents

DICI

In this year 2012 marks the ^600th anniversary of the birth of the shepherdess of Domremy, the pilgrimage of Pentecost France District of the Society of St. Pius X will leave and travel to Chartres Orleans. Recently appeared under the title "God give victory!", The doctrinal and spiritual record that allows prospective pilgrims to prepare for these three days of walking and prayer. It shows how the true mission of Joan of Arc was to demonstrate the social kingship of Jesus Christ. Here are three documents, excerpts from this issue, explaining the meaning of this mission is more than ever now.

The prince was the lieutenant of the King of heaven

Before leaving Vaucouleurs, the girl said that the kingdom belongs to Our Lord and Charles VII should hold it in commendam divine hands. In Chinon, it addresses the prince, saying: "You shall be lieutenant of the King of Heaven who is the King of France. "

Later, before the duke of Alencon and Trémoille, Jeanne begged him earnestly to give his kingdom to the King of Heaven.

This is from the Lord Jesus herself sum the English to leave the country unjustly conquered. (...) This is the Divine Master, above all, it claims to reconquer France is on the forehead of Christ that she first wants to place the crown of St. Louis. The descendant of Philippe de Valois, regardless of the respect she testifies against him, comes only the second, and as a representative of the Son of God.

"One day, the Maid asked the king to make him a present. The request was granted. She then asked him to offer her own in the kingdom of France. The prince, surprised, after some hesitation, however, granted him and the girl accepted. She even wished that the act was solemnly prepared and read by the four secretaries of the king. The charter written and recited aloud, the monarch remained a little amazed when the girl, the show, told the audience: "This is the poorest knight in his kingdom."

And after some time, in the presence of the same notary, with the mistress of the kingdom of France, she placed in the hands of the Almighty. Then, after a few other times, acting on behalf of God, it invests the King Charles the kingdom of France, and all she wanted was a solemn act drawn up in writing. "From the Breviarium Historiale. (Bishop H. Standing, Joan of Arc, Volume I, p 571; Record in doctrinal p. 80)

The true mission of Joan, then and now

The predominance of royal coronation in the thoughts of Joan of Arc is a fact too remarkable that we should not look for a meaning.

The Rite always present at the thought of Joan reveals the true purpose, or, more accurately, the adequate object of his mission, which was to remind the world, in the crossfire of England and France, that it is a policy of Supernatural God really active, dominant politics of earthly powers - and a Christian Right who implement and maintain the essential law of this policy, namely the salvation of the people by the Church of Christ. (...)

In this view, the glory of Jeanne is incomparable. If she already eclipsed by the character Judith and Esther, I say that this vision of the Rite which is at the end of her eyes, she approaches the greatness of Moses, the first promulgator of the Rights of God and the Divine Alliance. Its liberating glory would fade from glory to Divine Angel Policy, if you could separate from each other. (...)

Jesus is King of all kings. He claimed the real quality, even more than the title, in the midst of his passion, and before the representative of the greatest empire: You Medici quia Ego sum Rex (Thou sayest, I am King). John 18:37

However, it is this suzerainty of Christ that honors the Royal Coronation.

And it is more than a simple proof of origin divine authority fundamentally social.

It is even more than an appeal for the blessing and the divine assistance on the royal person. No, that is above all the Royal Consecration is to attach the power ground to the suzerainty of Jesus Christ, which is unique and universal - it is storing in a law holiest and most perfect religion natural, under the new law of Jesus, that body and the function of human power, which the world is most violently jealous, political power, the starting point and focal point of all social activity, object of the most ambitions proud as the lowest - that is to coordinate the government of Jesus Christ and soak up its mind.

(RPH Clerissac, OP, The Mission of St. Joan of Arc, p. 35-39; Record in doctrinal p. 81)

A saint for our times

Now that the apostasy came to an end and will give rein to his most terrible consequences, the Maid appears in glory to make all peoples a greater service than that it gave France the fifteenth ^century. The miracle of her earthly life was to become for us the 'sign' calling on her eyes to make us attentive to the Department to be exercised by the modern world: the mind, restore for all ages to come this truth, this law that the princes are the ministers of God for the good, responsible servants, who will be asked to account for their management by the rightful [1] and sovereign judge.

The Lordship of Jesus, it's the end of secularism, naturalism, humanism. The kingship of Jesus, that's what we thought he could call the Gospel of the Maid. Not that this kingdom was not contained in the deposit of Revelation. The Old and New Testament are full. But because, when Christianity began to want to escape it, Jeanne came from God, make a new proclamation confirmed by signs the most wonderful. The gospel of the divinity of Jesus Christ was impeded, was opposed by all the powers of this world, he could not win over time. It is the same recognition of his kingship. Five centuries ago that the Maid had sought, two centuries ago that the divine king announced the realization: 'I will reign in spite of my enemies.' The triumph of humanism, or to take the word of the day, secularism, in all its forms, his coronation by the separation of church and state, specifically in France, have this achievement as more distant, more impossible than ever, and it is this time that God chooses to beatify the herald of the kingdom.

No, it's not only our homage to receive the holy Maid was placed on the altar. These altars are a pulpit from which fall education course, one of which Christianity is most needed in the state of disorder where it fell, whom God has placed on the lips of Jeanne five centuries ago and which he reserved the universal resonance for those days when the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Revolution have pushed the company to the brink of an abyss so deep and so dark as its appearance, the human soul, was afraid, s' exclaim: 'Lord, save us, we perish!' You are our God and our Saviour, be our King. (Bishop H. Delassus, posthumous Mission of St. Joan of Arc, p. 421-423; Record in doctrinal p. 1 and 2)

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[1] This term refers to a feudal lord who had vassals under him and paying for their fiefs called droitures rights. (Ed)