Moreover, Saying My Prayers There, I Noticed Behind The High Altar A
Statue Of Our Lady, So Extraordinary And So
Different from all I had
ever seen before, so much the spirit of my valley, that I was quite
taken
Out of myself and vowed a vow there to go to Rome on Pilgrimage
and see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved; and I said, 'I
will start from the place where I served in arms for my sins; I will
walk all the way and take advantage of no wheeled thing; I will sleep
rough and cover thirty miles a day, and I will hear Mass every
morning; and I will be present at high Mass in St Peter's on the Feast
of St Peter and St Paul.'
Then I went out of the church still having that Statue in my mind, and
I walked again farther into the world, away from my native valley, and
so ended some months after in a place whence I could fulfil my vow;
and I started as you shall hear. All my other vows I broke one by one.
For a faggot must be broken every stick singly. But the strict vow I
kept, for I entered Rome on foot that year in time, and I heard high
Mass on the Feast of the Apostles, as many can testify - to wit:
Monsignor this, and Chamberlain the other, and the Bishop of
_so-and-so - o - polis in partibus infidelium;_ for we were all there
together.
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