He says to him, “No,” and puts him in another room for three hours.
When he came out of that he said, “You have only left me there three minutes.”
And he said to him, “Yes, yes, yes; you have been there three hours.”
And our Holy Father told him that the first room was Hell; that the second was Purgatory; and that the last was Heaven.[3]
The child says to him, “Where am I? I in Paradise! And my father?”
“And my mother?”
“In hell.”
The boy was grieved, and said to him, “Can I not save my mother? I would let my blood flow for her for seven years long.”
Our Holy Father tells him that he can, and he puts on him a hair-cloth shirt with a padlock, and throws the key into the water.