Twelfth point. The procession from thonon to annemasse

Her answer on the twelfth point was :

I also declare that I have been assured by credible eye-witnesses, that our Blessed Founder conducted the procession from Thonon to Annemasse, a place nearly a league distant from Geneva. Also, when the Cross was solemnly elevated there, he discharged the duties of Parish Priest with unparalleled courage and at the risk of his life, the more so because it was the first time such a procession had been made and the Cross displayed in Thonon. As neither the churchwarden nor any other Catholic in Thonon was willing to carry it at the head of the procession for fear of being killed, our Blessed Founder was obliged to have it carried by one of his own people, and thus went on followed by the Catholics, saying the Litanies with a modesty and dignity so full of devotion that the late M. Louis de Sales, who met him, was greatly touched and edified by the spectacle, as he told me.

• His servant [TV.].

70 Saint Sane JK lie ffiljantaP* Depositions