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Show T In Memory of the Blessed Virgin. Long ago in England many inns were named The Angel or The Salutation, the signboard bearing bear-ing a representation of the Annunciation or the Visitation. The names still survive, although the -signboards have disappeared. Taere is in Boston, in our own country, a narrow street named Salutation Saluta-tion Alley. It takes its name from a curious old tavern called The Salutation, on the signboard of which two men were shaking h.'mds. Some antiquarians anti-quarians tell us that this was a relic of the familiar ' ; English signboard of the old times, where our Blessed Lady was pictured as welcomed by St. Elizabeth Ave Maria. I |