"By the greeting they give me."[682]
Let not Jeanne be hastily taxed with error or untruth. Did not the Angel salute Gideon (Judges vi), and Raphaël salute Tobias (Tobit xii)?[683]
Thereafter Jeanne gave another reason: "I know them because they call themselves by name."[684]
When she was asked whether her saints were both clothed alike, whether they were of the same age, whether they spoke at once, whether one of them appeared before the other, she refused to reply, saying she had not permission to do so.[685]
Maître Jean Beaupère inquired which of the apparitions came to her the first when she was about thirteen.
Jeanne said: "It was Saint Michael. I beheld him with my eyes. And he was not alone, but with him were angels from heaven. It was by Messire's command alone that I came into France."
"Did you actually behold Saint Michael and these angels in the body?"
"I saw them with the eyes of my head as plainly as I see you; and when they went away I wept and should have liked them to take me with them."
"In what semblance was Saint Michael?"[686]
She was not permitted to say.