'Many,' she answered, 'were wont to touch both my hands and my rings; but I know not with what intention.'
'Did she not receive the sacrament and confess herself as she passed through the country?'
'Often,' she answered.
'And did you,' asked the priest, 'receive the sacrament in your male attire?'
'Yes,' she said; 'but not, if I recollect right, when wearing my armour.'
This confession of having received the Eucharist in her male dress was made one of the accusations of sacrilege by Joan of Arc's judges.
She was next questioned about a horse she had bought from the Bishop of Senlis, and ridden in battle.
The next point related to the supposed miraculous resurrection—a very temporary one however—of an infant three days old at Lagny. When Joan was in that place, this child appeared to have died, and was put before the image of the Virgin, in front of which some young women were kneeling. Joan of Arc joined them in their prayers, upon which it was noticed that the supposed dead infant gave some signs of life; he or she was baptized, and soon after expired. Joan of Arc had never for a moment supposed that it was owing to her presence and her prayers that this miracle had occurred.
'But,' asked Beaupère, 'was it not the common talk of the town of Lagny that you had performed this miracle, and had been the means of restoring the infant to life?'
'I did not inquire,' she said.