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The cardinal advanced, bestowing benedictions with his hands, and

receiving them in return from the mouths of the people, who were

with difficulty kept back by his attendants. Being of the same

village as Lucy, these peasants were desirous of rendering to the

archbishop peculiar demonstrations of respect, but this was not

practicable, inasmuch as, wherever he went, he was received with

every possible honour. In the very commencement of his

pontificate, at his first solemn entrance into the cathedral, the

concourse had been so great that his life was in peril. Some

gentlemen, who were near him, drew their swords to keep back and

alarm the crowd.