/lit/ - Literature

And he attested that Joan, "being already surrounded by the flame, never ceased up to the end to proclaim and to profess in a high voice the holy name of Jesus, imploring and invoking without cease the aid of the saints of paradise, and again, which is more, while surrendering her spirit and letting her head fall, she uttered the name of Jesus as a sign that she was fervent in the faith of God."
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One of the Englishmen, a soldier,who detested her exceptionally and had sworn that with his own hand he would bring a bundle of sticks to Joan's stake, at the moment he did it and heard Joan crying the name of Jesus in her last moment, stood struck with stupor as though in an ecstasy and had to be led to a tavern near the Old Marketplace, so that with the help of some drink he could regain his strength. ...this Englishmen confessed through the mouth of a friar who was also English that he had sinned gravely and that he repented what he had done against Joan, whom he know took to be a holy woman; for as it seemed to him, this Englishman had seen himself, at the moment that Joan gave up her spirit, a white dove emerge from her and take flight toward France.
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Pierre Cusquel... had not been present "because my heart could not have stood it and would have suffered from pity for Joan," but he recounted: "I have heard it said that Master Jean Tressart, secretary to the King of England, coming back from Joan's execution, lamentably afflicted and moaning over what he had seen in that place, said: "We are all lost, for it is a good and holy person that was burned.' and that he thought 'that her soul was in the hands of God, and that, when she was in the midst of the flames, she had continuously called upon the name of the Lord Jesus."

One of the assessors, Jean Alespée... wept abundantly, according to the witnesses, and said: "I wish that my soul were where I believe this woman's soul is."

And he attested that Joan, "being already surrounded by the flame, never ceased up to the end to proclaim and to profess in a high voice the holy name of Jesus, imploring and invoking without cease the aid of the saints of paradise, and again, which is more, while surrendering her spirit and letting her head fall, she uttered the name of Jesus as a sign that she was fervent in the faith of God."
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One of the Englishmen, a soldier,who detested her exceptionally and had sworn that with his own hand he would bring a bundle of sticks to Joan's stake, at the moment he did it and heard Joan crying the name of Jesus in her last moment, stood struck with stupor as though in an ecstasy and had to be led to a tavern near the Old Marketplace, so that with the help of some drink he could regain his strength. ...this Englishmen confessed through the mouth of a friar who was also English that he had sinned gravely and that he repented what he had done against Joan, whom he know took to be a holy woman; for as it seemed to him, this Englishman had seen himself, at the moment that Joan gave up her spirit, a white dove emerge from her and take flight toward France.
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Pierre Cusquel... had not been present "because my heart could not have stood it and would have suffered from pity for Joan," but he recounted: "I have heard it said that Master Jean Tressart, secretary to the King of England, coming back from Joan's execution, lamentably afflicted and moaning over what he had seen in that place, said: "We are all lost, for it is a good and holy person that was burned.' and that he thought 'that her soul was in the hands of God, and that, when she was in the midst of the flames, she had continuously called upon the name of the Lord Jesus."

One of the assessors, Jean Alespée... wept abundantly, according to the witnesses, and said: "I wish that my soul were where I believe this woman's soul is."

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