Maitre Pierre de Versailles, a monk of Saint-Denys in France, one of her interrogators at Poitiers, seeing her receive these marks of veneration, rebuked her on theological grounds: "You do wrong," he said, "to suffer such things to which you are not entitled.
Take heed: you are leading men into idolatry." Then Jeanne, reflecting on the pride which might creep into her heart, said: "In truth I could not keep from it, were not Messire watching over me."[1149] [Footnote 1149: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

84.] She was displeased to see certain old wives coming to salute her; that was a kind of adoration which alarmed her.

But poor folk who came to her she never repulsed.

She would not hurt them, but aided them as far as she could.[1150] [Footnote 1150: _Ibid._, vol.i, p.

102.] With marvellous rapidity the fame of her holiness had been spread abroad throughout the whole of France.