Patron saints are an institution as old as the hills, and whether they have been adopted by nations o cities or sects or churches, oF in any other manner, there is no doubt that they invariably have constitute fed noble ideals and have had—and have still—a moral influence as intangible as far-reaching. Accustomed as we are, however, to saint! Patronage of all manner of peoples and bodies, we must confess (without any desire to be cynical) to a slight start of surprise on learning that there is now a patron saint of lawyers; not that lawyers have not as much right as any other section of humanity to such a svititual head of their profess but at the unexpectedness of the things for (again, we have to be cynical) the averas the street cannot be expect ed immediately to associate sainthood with those gentlemen whose profession is the law and whose hobby is generally understood to be the accumulation of wealth, The Council of the—Association—or Order—of Lawyers in Paris has just adopted a patron saint; none other than Pope Clement IV. His Holiness the Pope has given his gracious benediction to the choice and has sent to the Paris Inwyers, an extremely valuable gift in the form of a likeness of Clement IV.
Pope Clement IV is rightly considered one of the most remarkable of the long line of Popes. History tells us that he was born in the year 1200, and before he donned the gown of priesthood which was eventually to number him among. the immortals, had achieved fame in other divections—first as a man of the sword and afterwards as lawyer, He was a man of "much science, prudence and humanity his judgments were always well accepted by the people, nobility and even by the King himself. Any defence he assumed ws certainly won and any he declined was as certainly lost." In 1241, a the request of the King, he martied a daughter of one of the nobles of the Court. His wife died in 1248 and Guy Folqueis, as he was then known, was so burdened with sorrow that he became a priest. hig new sphere he was as disring ished as in his old ones, for in eleven years he was made'an archbishop, two years after was a cardinal, and in 1205 became His Holiness Pope Clement IV, A cultured and a brilliant citizen of the world, " popular and a humane Pope, Clement IV is eminently suited to become patron saint of members of a profession in which brilliance and a knowledge of human nature are among the chief essentials to sticeess,
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