Reparation

Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched her die.

Bishop Cauchon was scarcely cold in his grave before Pope Calixtus IV excommunicated him, while the enraged Rouenais dug up his body and flung it into the town sewer. Last week, further restitution was made to the Maid of Orleans.

In the village of Farnham, Surrey, English monks, members of the orders before which Joan was tried, laid the cornerstone of a church to St. Joan of Arc. Present was Mgr. Eugene Stanislas Le Senne, today's Bishop of Beauvais.

"I am glad that England has at last made this reparation to the Saint," said the just Bishop. "Joan was always in favor of peace between the English and French forces. Four times she sent heralds to bring about an armistice. At her trial, when someone suggested that she was inspired by hatred of the English, she replied, 'God does not hate the English'."

Among the black-and-white Dominicans and black Benedictines who attended the ceremony, sat Mlle. Chantel de la Flech%#232;re, who claims collateral kinship with La Pucelle. Absent was the present Earl of Warwick, 18-year-old Charles Guy Fulke Greville.