Some of the Burma Shave-like signs still stand alongside roads that are not main highways any more and, subsequently, they aren’t seen as often as they used to be. The signs separated what had become a familiar act of devotion and piety in Roman Catholicism into a series of spread-out phrases:

Hail, Mary, Mother of God,
Blessed are you among women,
And blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus ...
Holy Mary, pray for us sinners
Now and at the hour of our death.
But I have never seen a road sign that popularizes the words that the angel Gabriel spoke to Mary:
Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you ...
Do not be afraid ... you will conceive and
bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
He will be great, and will be called
the Son of the Most High;
... the Lord God will give to him th…