One day Padre Fontanarosa said to the Pope, ‘People say I have been talking too freely, and call it telling tales; but I have only obeyed the wishes of Your Holiness. If I have done wrong send me away.’ But Papa Braschi answered, ‘You have done me good service. Fear nothing.’
The next day after that Padre Fontanarosa did not come to the Vatican, or the next, or the next.
Then Papa Braschi called for his carriage, and said, ‘Drive to the Gesù!’ Arrived at the Gesù, he said, ‘I want Padre Fontanarosa; where is he?’
They answered, ‘In his cell.’
But he had been confined in his cell on bread and water for chattering.
‘Then let him be brought out of his cell; for I want him!’ answered Papa Braschi.
That time he took Padre Fontanarosa away in his carriage, and no one durst say anything to him any more.
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Father Fontanarosa was very simple in his habits himself; and he thought the best way to keep the Order simple was to keep it poor. Whenever anyone wanted to leave money to it, instead of encouraging them, he used to tell them of some other good work to which they might leave it.