[9] St. Philip lived and taught for thirty-three years at the Church of S. Girolamo della Carità, not very far from the vegetable market in Campo de’ Fiori, all the streets about containing shops much frequented by the country people when they come up to Rome with their vegetables. [↑]
[10] ‘Scocciare,’ to persevere to weariness; to din. [↑]
[11] ‘Vassalli,’ in the older dictionaries ‘vassallo’ is only defined as a vassal; but in modern Roman parlance it means a scamp, a vagabond. [↑]
THE PARDON OF ASISI.[1]
St. Felix,[2] St. Vincent,[3] and St. Philip went together once upon a time to the Pardon of Asisi.
As they were three great saints, the Pope sent for them as soon as they came back, saying he had a question to ask them. It was Innocent IX. or X., I am not sure which; but I know it was an Innocent.[4] He took them one by one, separately, and began with St. Felix.
‘Were there a great many people at the Pardon?’ said the Pope.
‘Oh yes, an immense number,’ answered simple St. Felix; ‘I had not thought the whole world contained such a number.’
‘Then a vast number of sins must have been remitted that day?’ said the Pope.