“Able and zealous in this service was the wool-carder, Jean Leclerc, who also, not content with this and with visiting from house to house, wrote and posted on the cathedral doors some placards condemning the Church of Rome, thus drawing punishment on himself. For three successive days he was whipped through the streets and then branded on the forehead with a red-hot iron as a heretic. “Glory to Jesus Christ and to His witnesses!” cried a voice from the crowd. It was that of his mother. The bishop had to see these things and consent.”