Saint Joan of Arc: "I have come from God and the Virgin Mary"

- "Do you know how to be in the grace of God?" someone asked Joan during her trial.

- "It is a great thing," she replied, "to answer such a request!"

- "Yes, it is a great thing," said one of the assessors, the theologian Fabri; "the accused is not required to answer."

- "You had better keep quiet!" then shouted Cauchon angrily at Fabri.

- "Do you know how to be in grace?" repeated the interrogator.

- "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." She added, if she were in a state of sin, she did not think that the voice would come to her; I am not in it, God put me in it! And if I am there, God keep me there!"

They all remained mute and bowed their heads. But they continued to question her:

- "Tell us, do you trust in the determination of the Church? "

- "I defer to Our Lord who sent me, to Our Lady and to all the blessed men and women saints of Paradise. And I am of the opinion that it is all one with Our Lord and the Church, and that there should be no difficulty about it. Why do we make it difficult for it to be one?

- There is the triumphant Church, where God, the saints, the angels and the saved souls are. The Church militant is our Holy Father the Pope, vicar of God on earth, the cardinals, the prelates of the Church and the clergy, and all good Christians and Catholics. The Church, well assembled, cannot err and is governed by the Holy Spirit. Do you wish to refer to the Church militant, namely that which is thus declared?"

- "I came to the King of France in God's name, and in the names of the Blessed Virgin and of all the Blessed Saints of Paradise, and of the Church Victorious above, and at their command; to that Church I submitted all my good deeds and all I have done or should do.”

- "Do you know whether St. Catherine and St. Margaret hate the English? "

- "They love what Our Lord loves and hate what God hates. "

- "Does God hate the English? "

- "Of the love or hatred that God has for the English, or of what God will do to their souls, I know nothing. But I know that they will be booted out of France, except those who die there; And that God will send victory to the French, and against the English. "

Saint Joan of Arc

Trial (Volume I, p. 65; ibid. Volume III, p. 153,163,175, p. 162,166,174-176)