St. Felix only sighed in reply.
‘Why do you sigh?’ asked the Pope.
St. Felix hesitated to reply, but the Pope bade him tell him what was in his mind.
‘There were but few who gained the indulgence in all that multitude,’ replied the Saint; ‘for among them all were few who came with the contrition required.’
‘How many were there who did receive it?’ again asked the Pope.
Once more St. Felix hesitated till the Pope ordered him to speak.
‘There were only four,’ he then said.
‘Only four!’ exclaimed the Pope. ‘And who were they?’
St. Felix showed even more reluctance to answer this question than the others; but the Pope made it a matter of obedience, and then he said,
‘The four were Father Philip, Father Vincent, one old man, and one other.’[5]