Mandeville, La

Blessed John Herold, who out of humility called himself the Disciple, relates that there was a married man who lived in enmity with God. His wife, who was a virtuous woman, being unable to engage him to give up sin, begged him, in the wretched state in which he was, to practise at least the devotion of saluting our Blessed Lady with a 'Hail Mary' each time that he might pass before her picture.