Excerpts from the Trial of Joan of Arc

February 24, 1431

She also said that there is a saying among little children that people are often hanged for telling the truth.

 

Asked if she knew whether she were in the Grace of God, she answered "If I am not, may God put me there; if I am, may he keep me there.

She said that she was thirteen when the voices came to her for the first time.
 

March 1, 1431

Asked in what form Saint Michael appeared, she answered that she did not see his crown and as to his clothing, she knew nothing.

Asked whether he were naked.

She answered: "Do you think that Our Lord has not the wherewithal to clothe him?"

More excerpts from her trial

 

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