The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . y right dolorous andcumbered, for the man-at-arms wasfor laying them under sore duresse torender up his goods. True it is thatwhen the woman saw that perforceshe must render back the casket, orthat she and her husband should suf-fer heavy loss, she knew not what todo, nor might find any remède. Saveonly that she commended herself toGod, to Our Lady, and to MadameSaint Katherine of Fierboys, prom-ising and vowing that if Madamewould be pleased to pray God for 74 Miracles of Saint Katherine her, and if by her intercession thecups were found,
The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . y right dolorous andcumbered, for the man-at-arms wasfor laying them under sore duresse torender up his goods. True it is thatwhen the woman saw that perforceshe must render back the casket, orthat she and her husband should suf-fer heavy loss, she knew not what todo, nor might find any remède. Saveonly that she commended herself toGod, to Our Lady, and to MadameSaint Katherine of Fierboys, prom-ising and vowing that if Madamewould be pleased to pray God for 74 Miracles of Saint Katherine her, and if by her intercession thecups were found, she would travelbarefoot to the chapel in this came she, as she had vowed, tothis chapel, and let sing a so, the Mass being ended, newscame to her in the said chapel, thatthe casket and cups were true it is that in the night onwhich she set forth, in the evening,the cups were brought into the churchof Pont de Euen, and were foundthere in the morning, and the thingwas approven by several witnesses^ 75 yiii THE YEAE 1418. HE year one thou-sand four hundredand eighteen, a gen-tleman following thewars, named Oasindu Boys, was in garrison in the castleof Beaumont on Oyse, which castlethe Duke of Burgundy assaulted,and the assault endured three daysand three nights, and the castle wastaken by force, whereon they cut offthe heads of twenty gentlemen whowere within that castle. And thereinwere Casin and divers this Oasin was taken and 76 Miracles of Saint Katherine carried to a village some two leaguesfrom Beaumont, and there was shutup in a case locked with a key,bound moreover was the said cagewith a right strong rope all about it,and he who took Casin was mindedto cut off his head, so he heard. Anda man was bidden to lie above thecage, that Casin might find no man-ner of means to issue forth and befell it that Casin, being in-closed in that cage, and knowinghimself in peril of death, bethoughthim of the great and virtuous mira-cles
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