The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . elf to Ma-dame Saint Katherine. Next daycame the jailer, who let her go outof the yoke, that she might pass tothe chambres. Then the said jailerwent his way, and forgot to set herback in the yoke. Thereon Mar-guerite kneeled down, praying SaintKatherine to be her aid. Right so,when she had done her prayer, theirons and chains fell from her feet onone side, but not on the other. Thentook she the said irons and chains,and hove them up to the height ofher thigh, and fared to the door ofthe prison, that she found open, andso went forth down the
The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . elf to Ma-dame Saint Katherine. Next daycame the jailer, who let her go outof the yoke, that she might pass tothe chambres. Then the said jailerwent his way, and forgot to set herback in the yoke. Thereon Mar-guerite kneeled down, praying SaintKatherine to be her aid. Right so,when she had done her prayer, theirons and chains fell from her feet onone side, but not on the other. Thentook she the said irons and chains,and hove them up to the height ofher thigh, and fared to the door ofthe prison, that she found open, andso went forth down the street of 127 Miracles of Saint Katherine Frenay, about two hours beforenoon, in the sight of the was there found no man to askher what she did. Thus was Mar-guerite dehvered, at the prayer ofMadame Saint Katherine. That all this is true she hathsworn; present, Messire GeorgesGruiot, curé of Saint Maur, and Bro-ther Gilles Lecourt, warders of thechapel, Vincent des Patiz, GuillamneGuerrier, priests, and several others. 128 THE YEAR 1437. N the twenty-fiflli dayof July, in the yearone thousand fourhundred and thirty-seven, came into thechapel here one Thomas de Brique-ville, a knights son, of the garrisonof La Val, to whom God wroughtfair grace at the prayer of the Vir-gin Mary, and of the glorious Ma-dame Saint Katherine. It chanced that the said Thomaswas for three years prisoner to theEnglish in a castle named SaintDenis, and they asked for him a 129 17 Miracles of Saint Katherine ransom of a hundred salitz. He forhis part offered to pay sixty, whichthe Engiish would not take. Thomastherefore made his vow to MadameSaint Katherine, that, if she werepleased to aid him, he would cometo her chapel in his shirt, barefooted,and bareheaded. Thereon he found a manner to berid of his irons, by help of two littleknives and a little hatchet, concern-ing which he hath never knownwhence they came, save by graceof God. Thus was he free frombonds, one Friday at evening, andso w
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