The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . eighteenth day of April, in theyear of our Lord one thousand fourhundred and thirty, at my house inAngers, about nine oclock at night,began to be sorely sick, with an in-tolerable headache that lasted tillfour oclock in the morning, and,by reason of so great pain, I thoughtrather to die than to live. In that 116 Miracles of Saint Katherine hour I minded me of the glorious vir-gin Saint Katherine, to whom I wasever wont to pray on all occasions ofneed, and to her I recommended me,and made my vow. Then suddenlyand instantly, by grace of God,
The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . eighteenth day of April, in theyear of our Lord one thousand fourhundred and thirty, at my house inAngers, about nine oclock at night,began to be sorely sick, with an in-tolerable headache that lasted tillfour oclock in the morning, and,by reason of so great pain, I thoughtrather to die than to live. In that 116 Miracles of Saint Katherine hour I minded me of the glorious vir-gin Saint Katherine, to whom I wasever wont to pray on all occasions ofneed, and to her I recommended me,and made my vow. Then suddenlyand instantly, by grace of God, andof that glorious Virgin, as I firmlybelieve, that intolerable pain a few days, being wellagain, I set forth on foot to fulfilmy vow and return thanks to the chapel here I said Mass, bothfor the King, and the Maid, theworthy servant of God, and for thepeace and prosperity of this realm,on Wednesday, May the fifth, inthe year aforesaid.^ ^The Maid was taken prisoner at Com-piegne eighteen days after this Mass. 116 THE YEAR 1430. N the thirteenth ofJuly, in the year onethousand four hun-dred and thirty, cameon pilgrimag e into thechapel Pierre du Eons of Bourges,who is of the company of EegnaultGuillaume, brother of La Hire, andhe set forth and declared the miraclewrought by God for him, at theprayer of Madame Saint is to be known that eight daysbefore the feast of Saint Aignan thesaid Pierre and four of his fellows 117 Miracles of Saint Katherine were taken in a house or placenamed Lignîères by the English ofAlençon. Thence they were led toAlençon to prison. The first day oftheir coming thither the English cutoJff the head of one of the prisoners,for some displeasure that aforetimehe had done them. And next daythey hanged two more, so there re-mained only Pierre du Eons and oneother. Now at the end of eight daystheir captain, Eegnault Guillaume,sent to tell the English that suchtreatment as they gave his men, hewould give theirs, which mes
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