38/56 Many pious persons were wearing medals of lead or some other metal, stamped with her portrait, according to the customary mode of honouring the memory of saints.[1151] Paintings or sculptured figures of her were placed in chapels. At mass the priest recited as a collect "the Maid's prayer for the realm of France:" [Footnote 1151: _Ibid._, pp. A.Forgeais, _Collection de plombs histories trouves dans la Seine_, Paris, 1869 (5 vol.in 8vo), vol.ii, iv, and _passim_. Vallet de Viriville, _Notes sur deux medailles de plomb relatives a Jeanne d'Arc_, Paris, 1861, in 8vo, 30 p. |