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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 355, 24 September 1889, Page 2

An explanation of how the legal profession came to be associated with the deril la given in the following extract Ono. upon a time there lived in Brittany a lawyer, who was a devout Catholic, by the name of Evona, He was shocked to find that while every trade and profession, from the highest to the lowest, had a saint, the lawyers were without one. So Evona went to Rome to entreat the Pope to give the lawyers a tutelary or patron saint, His Holiness replied that he knew of none that were not already assigned to some other profession, but that he might wend his way to the church of Giovanni d'Leterana, and after going around the interior blindfolded and saying a number of Ave Marias, the saint he laid hold of should ba the patron of the lawyers. This the good old lawyer undertook to perform. Ac the end of his Ave Marias he stopped at the altar of St. Michael, where be laid hold of—not the saint, but the next thing to it—the devil underneath San Miguel's feet, crying out; * This is oar taint I Let him oar p&tfon be!' "