Marian Broadside
[HOLY SCAPULAR.]
Instruction pour ceux et celles qui portent le Saint Scapulaire ... Le Mans, ‘chez Madame V.e Dureau’, [c. 1820].
Broadside (c. 450 x 360 mm), 51 lines of text, large woodcut at head of the Virgin and Child (‘Voila votre Mere, montrez que vous êtes notre Mere’) flanked by two smaller woodcuts, surrounded by a frame of type ornaments; light creases from folding; uncut and in excellent condition.
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Instruction pour ceux et celles qui portent le Saint Scapulaire ...
A seemingly unrecorded broadside addressed to members of both sexes wishing to honour the Virgin Mary by joining the Confraternity of the Holy Scapular, issued at Le Mans by Louise-Marie-Élisabeth Dureau.
The text explains that after confession and communion, postulants were to take their new scapular (of brown wool), kneel down, and offer themselves in silent prayer to the service of the Virgin, after which their names were inscribed in the confraternity’s register. Members are here encouraged to wear their scapular every day (they could get a new one if theirs was worn out or lost) and to offer daily prayers and service to the Virgin. A list of indulgences granted to members concludes the text: ‘it seems that nothing is lacking for those who wear the Holy Scapular to facilitate their path to heaven ... the holy Virgin on one side, and the sovereign pontiffs on the other’ (trans.). A footnote records that scapulars could be blessed in Le Mans cathedral following Vespers on any Marian feast day.
Louise-Marie-Élisabeth Dureau (née Royer, d. 1827) succeeded her husband Marin-Jean Dureau upon his death in 1812, serving as printer to the clergy of Le Mans in addition to working as a binder and bookseller. She is recorded as operating at no. 5 rue de la Perle (the address given here) from 1820, and appears to have ceased printing in 1823. Her son Alexandre was also a binder.
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