Vellum Charter of Saint Amadour,

Mace of St. Amadour of the parish of St. Quentin, with an armorial seal pendant, ‘St. Amadour undertakes to demolish and raze all the works he had done on the road to Craon so that the noble and powerful Lord On Rues de rohan can pass there with all his servants', small black armorial seal, pendant. 31cm x 14cm, framed.

***Amadour is the legendary founder of the shrine of Our Lady of Rocamadour in France, he is believed to have been a hermit, his feast day is the 20 August. He was identified with Zaccheus of the Gospel, and husband of St. Veronica. Driven forth from Palestine by persecution, Amadour and Veronica embarked in a frail skiff and, guided by an angel, landed on the coast of Aquitaine, where they met Bishop St. Martial, who was preaching the Gospel in the southwest of Gaul. After journeying to Rome, where he witnessed the martyrdoms of Sts. Peter and Paul. Amadour, having returned to France, on the death of his spouse, withdrew to a wild spot where he built a chapel in honour of the Blessed Virgin, near which he died.