46.] Of a truth, God speaketh through the mouths of virgins.

But in such matters it is necessary to act with extreme caution, to distinguish carefully between the true prophetesses and the false, not to take for messengers from heaven the heralds of the devil.

The latter sometimes create illusions.

Following the example of Simon the Magician, who worked wonders vying with the miracles of St.Peter, these creatures have recourse to diabolical arts for the seduction of men.

Twelve years before, there had prophesied a woman, likewise from the Lorraine Marches, Catherine Suave, a native of Thons near Neufchateau, who lived as a recluse at Port de Lates, yet most certainly did the Bishop of Maguelonne know her to be a liar and a sorceress, wherefore she was burned alive at Montpellier in 1417.[644] Multitudes of women, or rather of females, _mulierculae_,[645] lived like this Catherine and ended like her.
[Footnote 644: _Parvus Thalamus_, ed.