Why so many people?
Because they want the Saint at Filettino, they want him at Vallepietra, they want him at Trevi, and the women of Jenne intend to keep him for themselves.
"And all to give me a rest!" the doctor added.

"And to give the chemist a rest also, for now the Benedictine is the doctor, and his tunic is the chemist!" He told them that to-day people were coming from Filettino, from Vallepietra, and from Trevi, to treat with Jenne concerning some means of dividing the Saint among all those towns, "Who knows but what they may come to blows!" At any rate the _carabinieri_ were already stationed at Jenne.
"You call him 'the Saint' also ?" said Maria.
"Oh, yes!" the doctor answered, laughing.

"They all call him that, all save those who call him 'the Devil,' for at Jenne some do so already!" How astonishing! This was news to them! Who called him "the Devil," and why?
"Ah!" and the doctor put on the knowing look of one who is well informed, but does not intend to tell all he knows.

"Well," said he, "there are two priests from Rome staying at Jenne for a holiday, two priests, two priests--! They are very clever! They have not told me what they think of the Saint, but, at any rate, the parish priest's ardour has cooled considerably, and it has been the same with others.

Those priests are workers.