The two old women accompanied him.

When the trip was too hard for them, he went alone.
One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city.

He was mounted on an ass.

His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not permit him any other equipage.

The mayor of the town came to receive him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, with scandalized eyes.