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Quotation from The Trial of Joan of Arc by Jeanne d'Arc; Pierre Cauchon; Guillaume Bouille; T. Douglas Murray

“If I were in a wood, I could easily hear the Voice which came to me. It seemed to me to come from lips I should reverence. I believe it was sent me from God”

Jeanne d'Arc; Pierre Cauchon; Guillaume Bouille; T. Douglas Murray (spoken by Joan of Arc)

The Trial of Joan of Arc, Condemnation trial, examination on the voices, trans. T. Douglas Murray (1902)

Portrait of Jeanne d'Arc; Pierre Cauchon; Guillaume Bouille; T. Douglas Murray

Joan gives sensory and theological language for the voice without surrendering full control to the examiners.

Citation: "If I were in a wood, I could easily hear the Voice which came to me. It seemed to me to come from lips I should reverence. I believe it was sent me from God" — Jeanne d'Arc; Pierre Cauchon; Guillaume Bouille; T. Douglas Murray, The Trial of Joan of Arc, Condemnation trial, examination on the voices, trans. T. Douglas Murray (1902). (id the-trial-of-joan-of-arc-q2)

Portrait: Contemporaine afb jeanne d arc, Clément de Fauquembergue, Public domain.

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