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in filth, and he was a glutton and had drunk too much. When he was on his way back from Ere, near Tournai, and was near the Sainte-Fontaine gate he started to beat a poor, sinful woman. When she saw she was being assaulted, she began to shout and scream, and she looked up at the statue of the Virgin above the gate and said out loud, Blessed Virgin Mary, please help me and come to my aid,' (67)."

This quote not only shows that Jussie (and presumably other Catholics during the early modern period) believed that God's intervention into certain situations ultimately influenced the outcome of an event. Here, a woman being harassed by a Protestant pleads with the Virgin Mary and receives a miracle in return. However, it is also important for the reader, upon reading this passage, to question Jussie's involvement in these events. It does not seem as though she were actually there when these events took place, so the dialogue between the woman and her assaulter, and the event as a whole, could simply be a fabrication that Jussie and other Catholics told to give assistance to their overall agenda.

As seen in the above quote, Jussie also tends to convey her biases in the form of exaggeration. There are several points in the text when Jussie's descriptions seem hyperbolic. In many cases, she exaggerates the nature or scope of an individual's reaction to a certain event. In another of Jussie's reports she describes a Christian man who was in a church while Protestants were pillaging it.
Concerning the man's reaction to the pillagers' iconoclastic behavior, Jussie writes, "That good man declared that he firmly believed angels had lifted it up from that place and called it back to an honorable place unknown to us," (53). While this man may have said these words, there is no way to be certain. First, it is unlikely that Jussie herself was there. Second, if similar words were actually spoken and relayed to Jussie, she may have taken liberties in her narration of these events, including the man's account after the pillaging occurred.
However, like the story about the Virgin Mary's statue crying blood, it seems as though this anecdote serves more as a "moral lesson" which could serve to support the Catholic agenda rather than a true-to-life account.

Jussie often includes numbers in her descriptions of events, often inserting large numbers to represent the number of people fighting on each side of the cause. In her description of the events of the Battle of Kappel, on page 60, Jussie

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