M.Emery, the reformer of Saint-Sulpice, gave the impulsion in this sense.

("Histoire de M.Emery," by Abbe Elie Meric, p.
115 etc.) M.Emery addressed the seminarians thus: "Do you think that, if we pray to the Holy Virgin sixty times a day to aid us at the hour of death, she will desert us at the last moment ?"--" He led us into the chapel, which he had decked with reliquaries....

He made the tour of it, kissing in turn each reliquary with respect and love, and when he found one of them out of reach for this homage, he said to us, 'Since we cannot kiss that one, let us accord it our profoundest reverence!'...
And we all three kneeled before the reliquary."-- Among other episcopal lives, that of Cardinal Pie, bishop of Poitiers, presents the order of devotion in high relief.

("Histoire du cardinal Pie," by M.Bannard, II.,348 and passim.) There was a statuette of the Virgin on his bureau.
After his death, a quantity of paper scraps, in Latin or French, written and placed there by him-were found, dedicating this or that action, journey or undertaking under the special patronage of the Virgin or St.
Joseph.

He also possessed a statuette of Our Lady of Lourdes which never was out of his sight, day or night.