"Before seven years have passed," she said to them, "the English shall lose a greater wager than any they lost at Orléans. They shall lose everything in France. They shall suffer greater loss than ever they have suffered in France, and that shall come to pass because God shall vouchsafe unto the French great victory."
"How do you know this?"
"I know it by revelation made unto me and that this shall befall within seven years. And greatly should I sorrow were it further delayed. I know it by revelation as surely as I know that you are before my eyes at this moment."
"When shall this come to pass?"
"I know neither the day nor the hour."
"But the year?"
"That ye shall not know for the present. But I should wish it to be before Saint John's Day."
"Did you not say that it should come to pass before Saint Martin in the winter?"
"I said that before Saint Martin in the winter many things should befall and it might be that the English would be discomfited."
Whereupon the examiner asked Jeanne whether when Saint Michael came to her he was accompanied by Saint Gabriel.