Reading Notes: An Incident in Rome #2
In this story, something took place in Rome: a wagon filled with stones was crossing a road in the country when one of the wheels got stuck in the ground. When they finally got it out, there was a large hole in the ground still - and it opened into a dark, underground room.
"Who wants to come into this hole?"
"I do." said Master Francis, and then a rope lowered him into the dark room. When he got down there, he turned and saw a door. When he opened it, it was the same darkness. When he turned the other direction, it was the same. He turned again and opened the door to see a man sitting a table, reading a paper he has just wrote. When he finished, he began over again.
Master Francis walked up to him and asked, "Who are you?" He got no response from the man, who continued to read. He asked him again, with no response again.
When asked a third time the man said, "I will write who I am on your back. When you leave, make the Pope read it. But only the Pope."
So Master Francis let him, and asked him how long he had been there. He still didn't respond. So Master Francis left, and when he returned to the outside his friends didn't recognize. He looked like an old man now.
"What happened?" everyone asked.
"Nothing," he replied. "I must be taken to the Pope."
Two of the men took him to the Pope. Master Francis took off his shirt and asked him to read what was on his pack. "I AM PILATE," he said.
And as the words came out of his mouth, Master Francis became a statue.
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