The legend of Saint Reine is only a somewhat ancient variant of the legend of Saint Margaret.] Madame Sainte Catherine, whose coming the angel had announced to Jeanne at the same time as that of Madame Sainte Marguerite, was the protectress of young girls and especially of servants and spinsters.
Orators and philosophers too had chosen as their patron saint the virgin who had confounded the fifty doctors and triumphed over the magi of the east.

In the Meuse valley rhymed prayers like the following were addressed to her: Ave, tres sainte Catherine, Vierge pucelle nette et fine.[273] [Footnote 273: Hail, thou holy Catherine, Virgin Maid so pure and fine.
_Bibliotheque Mazarine, manuscrit_, 515.

_Recueil de prieres_, folio 55.

This manuscript comes from the banks of the Meuse.] This fine lady was no stranger to Jeanne; she had her church at Maxey, on the opposite bank of the river; and her name was borne by Isabelle Romee's eldest daughter.[274] [Footnote 274: S.Luce, _loc.

cit._, proofs and illustrations, xiii, p.