The catalogue of the saints is not, strictly speaking, necessarily a matter of faith, but of pious devotion.

Nevertheless, it is not to be highly censured by any manner of man.
To come to the present case, the following circumstances are to be noted: First, the royal council and the men-at-arms were induced to believe and to obey; and they faced the risk of being put to shame by defeat under the leadership of a girl.

Second, the people rejoice, and their pious faith seems to tend to the glory of God and the confounding of his enemies.

Third, the enemy, even his princes, are in hiding and stricken with many terrors.

They give way to weakness like a woman with child; they are overthrown like the Egyptians in the song sung by Miriam, sister of Moses, to the sound of the timbrel in the midst of the women who went out with her with timbrels and with dances: "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea."[1134] And let us likewise sing the song of Miriam with the devotion which becometh our case.
[Footnote 1134: Exodus, xv, 20, 21 (W.S.).] Fourth, and in conclusion, this point is worthy of consideration: The Maid and her men-at-arms despise not the wisdom of men; they tempt not God.