She was the patron saint of flax-spinners, of procurers of wet-nurses, of vellum-dressers, and of bleachers of wool.

Her precious relics in a reliquary, carried on a mule's back, were paraded by ecclesiastics through towns and villages.

Plenteous alms[268] were showered upon the exhibitors in return for permission to touch the relics.

Many times had Jeanne seen Madame Sainte Marguerite at church, painted life-size, a holy-water sprinkler in her hand, her foot on a dragon's head.[269] She was acquainted with her history as it was related in those days, somewhat on the lines of the following narrative.
[Footnote 267: _La vierge Marguerite substituee a la Lucine antique_, analysis of an unpublished poem of the fifteenth century, Paris, 1885, in 8vo, p.2.Rabelais, _Gargantua_, vol.i, ch.vi.

L'Abbe J.B.
Thiers, _Traite des superstitions qui regarde les sacrements selon l'Ecriture sainte_, Paris, 1697 (4 vols.