The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . ^i^?sB3 HE twenty-fourth ofthe month of April,in the year one thou-sand four hundred andtwenty-three, therecame into the chapel here one namedPerrin Gougeaut, of the parish ofSaint Germain de Eelez, who hadbeen taken by Burgundians the Sun-day before, in the evening aboutsunset. There were seven Burgun-dians at his taking, who took alongwith him another man called Nori-cete Girart, and bound them andcoupled them together, and espe- 82 Miracles of Saint Katherine cîally the said Perrin was boundwith four ropes right straitly. Thenmade they t
The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . ^i^?sB3 HE twenty-fourth ofthe month of April,in the year one thou-sand four hundred andtwenty-three, therecame into the chapel here one namedPerrin Gougeaut, of the parish ofSaint Germain de Eelez, who hadbeen taken by Burgundians the Sun-day before, in the evening aboutsunset. There were seven Burgun-dians at his taking, who took alongwith him another man called Nori-cete Girart, and bound them andcoupled them together, and espe- 82 Miracles of Saint Katherine cîally the said Perrin was boundwith four ropes right straitly. Thenmade they their vows to MadameSaint Katherine of Fierboys. Andinstantly their vows being made,they found themselves all unboundbefore the very eyes of the Burgun-dians, who wrought them no harmnor annoy. Then went they and laid themdown in a wood, and there slept,and so escaped. That this is true the said Perrinhas sworn by the faith of his body,with these present, Guillaume Talle-bot, Perrin Briant, Brother GillesLecourt, and many others. 83 XI THE YEAR 1423. HE sixth day of themonth of May of theyear one thousandfour hundred andtwenty-three, Guil-laume Bressin, native of Saint-Brieucin Bretagne, came into the chapelhere, who about Michaelmas last hadbeen taken by the English. Andhe was carried to Eouen and putin the fosse in irons, he and anotherwith him. And the other went freeand the said Bressin remained as ahostage for both. Now the other was 84 ^ Miracles of Saint Katherine to return and bring back a ransomfor both of them. But he returnednot, nor came nor sent. Thereforethe said Bressin lay in prison for thespace of seventeen weeks. Then he,being in great heaviness, remem-bered him of the Virgin Mary, andof Madame Saint Katherine of Fier-boys, to whom he made his his vow being done and hisorison, straightway the EngHshstruck off his irons, and set him freeout of the ditch. Thereon he de-parted from them and escaped outof their hands, and went away with-out ransom, no man
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