Marie Robine

Marie Robine , also known as Marie of Avignon or Marie the Gasque, was a French mystic who was active during the time of the Western Schism.

Biography Robine's hometown was Héchac, near Soublecause in what is now Hautes-Pyrénées. In 1387, Marie was miraculously cured of a paralytic condition at the tomb of Pierre de Luxembourg, an event witnessed by Antipope Clement VII. Thereafter, she received financial support from the Avignon line of papal claimants, allowing her to live nearby as a recluse.

In the spring of 1398, she traveled to Paris in the hope of influencing Charles VI of France to continue his support of Antipope Benedict XIII, the successor of Clement. In this she was unsuccessful, as on 27 July 1398 a church council held at the University of Paris voted to withdraw obedience from Benedict XIII.

In fiction In the historical drama Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw, the Dauphin (and future Charles VII of France) declares his willingness to meet Joan of Arc because of his family's history with religious mystics: