She had read an article in the _Corriere_ on the "Saint of Jenne," in which it was stated that the Saint was young, and had been a day-labourer in the kitchen-garden at Santa Scolastica.
Therefore it must be he! She entreated Noemi to go to Jenne, and beg a word of comfort for her, for the sake of charity! Noemi was determined to go.

Would Giovanni accompany her?
In the humble tone in which she asked this favour, Giovanni heard a tacit petition for forgiveness and peace; he held out his hand: "With all my heart," he said.
Maria offered to join them, and they decided to go the following morning, starting on foot, at five o' clock, in order to avoid the blazing sun on the slope of Jenne.

Then they spoke of the Saint.
The whole valley was talking about him.

The article Jeanne had seen said that a great number of people were flocking to Jenne to see and hear the Saint; that miraculous cures were being announced as his work; that the Benedictines told with admiration of the life of penance and of prayer he had led for three years at Santa Scolastica, working in the garden.
At Subiaco still more wonderful reports were circulating.

A certain forester called Torquato, a most worthy man and a relative of the Selvas' servant, told her he had been to Jenne with a stranger, a sort of poet, who had come all the way from Rome to talk with the Saint.