For the past few days, William has not been in the Duke's palace in Rouen, waiting for Jeanne to assemble his army and go to the front, expecting her to perform a miracle, it is irresponsible to do so, pinning his hopes of victory on a peasant girl with no military experience, even if William believes that Jeanne is the real Joan of Arc.

Therefore, William had already sent the Third Army led by Count Andrew as the first batch of reinforcements that William gave to Count Rodrigo, and he believed that with this group of more than 6,000 well-armed veterans with some war experience, Count Rodrigo could stabilize the front and confront the locality.

As for other military-related matters such as recruiting soldiers, transferring troops and supplies, William's military governor, Earl Hubert, handled it, and related government affairs were handled by Earl Adolf and Osborne's butler, so William didn't have to worry too much.

In the past few days, William has been busy with one thing, that is, to build momentum for Jeanne, and to meet the angels St. Michael, St. Margaret, and St. Catharene under the big tree behind the church of St. Catherine in her hometown, so as to get a "revelation from God", asking her to lead troops to seize France for God's chosen Mandate King, and help him be crowned King of France, and spread to the whole of Normandy through the hands of the Normandy consortium and the Chamber of Commerce.

And in the story of Jeanne's encounter with miracles, William becomes the protagonist of this story, he is God's chosen king of French destiny, and he is the object of Jeanne's full assistance.

Through the spread of the story of Jeanne's encounter with miracles, Jeanne's ability to communicate with God was widely known, and William's choice of God's Mandate King was gradually accepted by everyone, especially in the areas ruled by the Duchy of Normandy.

Of course, Henry I, the current king of France, would never allow such rumors to spread within his rule, and he immediately sent troops to hunt down the rumors.

Many of the people captured by Henry I were Normans, which made him particularly angry, and even more wary of William, although he wanted to kill the Normans, he really did not want to provoke William anymore because of his current vitality.

In the end, under William's warning and demand, he had no choice but to cast all the Normans, and turned a blind eye to the people who spread the news, and it is unknown whether he was secretly obstructing it behind the scenes.

In this way, within a few days, Jenny noticed that there was something wrong with the eyes of the soldiers around her, with a fanatical admiration.

Everywhere she went, a large number of soldiers and villagers who had heard the news came around her, trying to stroke her horse and armor with their hands, bowing their heads and kissing her toes, and they saw that being close to Jenny, who could communicate with God, was tantamount to getting close to God, and would enable them to escape hell and ascend to heaven after death.

At the same time, there are many people who hold the most precious utensils in the house and hope that Jenny will touch them, and in their opinion, the utensils used by Jenny are equivalent to being consecrated, with divine power and spirituality.

Even when Jenny was temporarily staying in the villagers' homes, the utensils she used were fought over by the villagers and the accompanying soldiers.

Jeanne was so popular that every day she was surrounded by a large number of admirers, willing to obey her orders, including the baronial nobles, including Ferdinand, a devout Christian Baron de Pontoise.

Of course, this was not the case for everyone, and the vast majority of those close to Jenny were low-ranking commoners, soldiers, and low-ranking knights, and most of the high-ranking nobles and officers were suspicious of Jenny, not believing that a peasant girl had really received a revelation from God, not that she had hallucinated.

Jenny, who had no roots in aristocratic circles, was not welcomed by the nobles, who regarded Jenny, a chattering female knight, as an anomaly, and kept away from her, and even more so, some nobles thought that Jenny perceived and acted as Satan, and especially hated this witch.

Jeanne was still scared when she began to be worshipped and approached by everyone, but she quickly calmed down, and everyone's worship was recognized by Jenny as everyone was inspired by God to try to get close to her, which strengthened her belief in her heart - she believed that she was really God's messenger, she was righteous, and she was destined to follow God's guidance to defeat the evil French princes and assist William to be crowned King of France.

All William did for Jenny to be canonized, which was the most important part of his plan.

If Jenny were not a saint, who would believe that Jenny's words were true; If Jeanne had not been recognized by the Holy See, how could William have replaced the Holy See's influence in Normandy and France, making her the spiritual pillar of the country?

At that time, I am afraid that Jenny will be like what happened to Joan of Arc in history, in case of defeat and fall, the enemy will use the church to declare her a vicious witch, which William will never allow.

Things had gone as William had expected, and the majority of the people and some of the nobles in the Duchy of Normandy had accepted Jeanne, worshipped her, and honored her as a saint.

Being worshipped by the crowd is the first step in Jeanne's canonization, because in Catholic doctrine saints are not "canonized" by the Holy See, but only "recognized" by the Holy See, and their divine attributes come from God.

This concept is very important because in medieval Catholicism, "canonization" can be understood as a "bottom-up" process, in which a group of people first gather together to worship a certain figure, and then go through a series of procedures to finally recognize the figure as a saint by the Holy See. The "mass nature" of the saint is very important because it is the embodiment of his sacredness.

Of course, the first step in the canonization of Jeanne, the fact of being worshipped by the public, needs to be confirmed by the bishop of the local diocese and submitted to the Holy See for review, and the Holy See will send clergy and priests from the Congregation of the Holy Liturgy (Congregation of the Sacraments) to investigate and approve it.

The department's job is to collect petitions from the dioceses and to send to the dioceses the Ombudsman, who is sometimes called the "devil's defender" and is responsible for ascertaining the veracity of the deeds, deeds, and miracles of the person who is about to be canonized.

This type of investigation is extremely cautious, so it is common for investigators to refute the miracle event (or even to first identify the miracle as a deception) in order to infer the authenticity of the miracle and look for loopholes in the miracle event that violate the faith. The results of their investigation will directly affect or even terminate the progress of the listing; Thus the "devil's apologists" is an ironic term in which the faithful expect someone to make an offer, but they "stop it with all their might", and as a result, their image in ecclesiastical art often resembles the devil.

The second level of recognition by the local church was very simple, and the Normandy church, which was under the full control of William, determined the sanctity of Jenny according to his instructions, and submitted it to the church for approval.

Although William had an unusual relationship with Pope Benedict IX, he knew that it would not be so easy to canonize Jeanne.

Not to mention the unpredictable Pope Benedict IX, as well as the obstruction of the Clunian monks who opposed William, these are all obstacles to Jeanne's canonization, and they cannot be rushed.