LONG-FORGOTTEN CHAPEL.
Many years ago, in the 14tlh: century, a chapel was built at the corner of the rue Saint Jacques, and the ancient Ruedes Noyers, Paris, on the old Roman road, which leads south from the island on the Seine, where Notre Dani9 now stands. The existence of the chapel, which was dedicated to Saint Yves, the patron saint of lawyers, had long been forgotten, when a'workman, in digging the foundations for an extension of the Metro came upon a stone slab with an inscription on it which showed tliat", it was the founda-tion-stone of a chapel, laid by the Kinc of France in the year 1352. A curious thing about this chapel was that its' inside'walls- were-once coverod with " brief bags,'* which successful pleaders, placed there as a grateful offering. Now the stone, the last relic of the. lawyers'. „ shrine, has, been presented to the Museum -of the Order -of - the Advocates* .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20508, 8 March 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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154LONG-FORGOTTEN CHAPEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20508, 8 March 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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