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A FRESCO OF SIGNORELLI
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A FRESCO OF SIGNORELLI
A week later Father Gondo was in Rome. He was
granted an interview with the old man in the
Vatican and told him how he had found Antichrist
in the likeness of Christ, how the former had
entangled the people of Diamante in worldliness, and
how he, Father Gondo, had wished to burn him.
He also told how he had not been able to lead the
people back to God. Instead, all Diamante had
fallen into unbelief and socialism. No one there
cared for his soul; no one thought of heaven. Father
Gondo asked what he should do with those
unfortunate people.
The old pope, who is wiser than any one now
living, did not laugh at Father Gondo’s story; he
was deeply distressed by it.
“You have done wrong; you have done very
wrong,” he said.
He sat silent for a while and pondered; then he
said: “ You have not seen the Cathedral in Orvieto ? ”
— “ No, Holy Father.” — “ Then go there now and
see it,” said the pope; “and when you come back
again, you shall tell me what you have seen there.”
Father Gondo obeyed. He went to Orvieto and
saw the most holy Cathedral. And in two days he
was back in the Vatican.
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