The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . the parish of Saint MartindOrviUier, in the dio-cese of Amiens, camehither on pilgrimage,saying that, when he and certainof his fellowship were riding to suc-cor the King of Hungary, they weretaken by the Saracens, and werekept in irons as slaves, being chainedby the legs and necks. Then be-thought they of the noble miraclesof Madame Saint Katherine. Anon,when they had made their vows,the chains and collars of iron on Miracles of Saint Katherine their legs and necks fell off, andso escaped they without any hin-drance. And the said Loys came
The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . the parish of Saint MartindOrviUier, in the dio-cese of Amiens, camehither on pilgrimage,saying that, when he and certainof his fellowship were riding to suc-cor the King of Hungary, they weretaken by the Saracens, and werekept in irons as slaves, being chainedby the legs and necks. Then be-thought they of the noble miraclesof Madame Saint Katherine. Anon,when they had made their vows,the chains and collars of iron on Miracles of Saint Katherine their legs and necks fell off, andso escaped they without any hin-drance. And the said Loys came tothis chapel on the second day of Oc-tober in the year one thousand fourhundred forty and three, to thankGod and Madame Saint saith also that it is now sixmonths agone since he and his fel-lows commended them to the gloriousvirgin. And that all above said istrue he hath sworn in presence ofMessire Georges Guiot, priest. Bro-ther Peter Queroan, warders of thischapel, Messire Jehan Quentin,priest, and divers others. 14519 THE YEAR 1444. HE thirteenth day ofthe month of June,in the year one thou-sand four hundredforty and four cameinto this chapel one of the archersof Monseigneur the Dauphin namedJean Oquilhe, of the parish of of the Wood, in the see ofNantes, in Brittany. This man hadbeen taken by the EngHsh andcarried to la Eivière de Thibou-ville, and there put into stocks sogreat, heavy, and marvelous, that itneeded four men to set him in and 146 Miracles of Saint Katherine take him out. He then, being inthis prison, bethought him of Ma-dame Saint Katherine, to whom hemade his vow. Anon, the vow being made, heissued forth of the irons and the pri-son, doing himself no manner ofharm, and so crossed the ditches ofthe place, so Ml of water and sodeep that it was marvel. There-fore the said Jean is come to dohis vow and his pilgrimage. Andhath said and sworn that these thingsare true, in presence of MessireGeorges Guiot, priest, Brother PierreQueroan, war
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