I do confirm it; it is the truth.

He was a great sinner.

To-morrow he may fall again.

If he believed you, for one moment only, when you call him a saint, God would depart from him.

Do not again call him thus, and above all do not ask him to perform miracles." "Padre!" Coming forward, his arms spread wide, an old man, tall, thin, toothless, with the profile of the eagle, interrupted him in a solemn voice.