Post #6035

Rimini was perhaps the city then for a long time, and more mortally infected, although its zealous Bishops and the Roman Pontiffs themselves had tried every remedy to cure it. The Heretics of there, made fearful of the Holy Preacher, whose fame scattered by the other Cities reported that no Heretic could resist the efficacy of his speech, agreed among themselves not to want to listen to him, and so much struggled with the people, that either, fearful or smeared with the same pitch, he decided to follow their example. So when the Saint arrived and climbed onto the pulpit, instead of finding a crowded and hungry audience to listen to him, as was the custom elsewhere, he saw that when he appeared everyone was leaving, and escaping him. But his zeal was not lost.