"You have come home?" said the bishop.
"I have," said he.
"And the needles with you?" said the bishop.
"Yes," says the priest, "here they are."
"Why then, the sins that are on me," said the bishop, "are greater than those on you."
The bishop had no rest then until he went to the Pope, and he told him that he had put this penance on the priest, "and I had no expectation that he would come back for ever until he was drowned," said he.
"That same penance that you put upon the priest you must put it on yourself now," said the Pope, "and you must make the same journey. The man is holy," said he.
The bishop went away, and embarked upon the same journey, and never came back since.