Priests came and went in the aisles, and entered some of the chapels.

Worshipers, most of them women, knelt before the shrines.

Service was held at the high altar, and the odor of incense filled the great nave.

Yet the boy was still in sanctuary, and a kindly angel was watching over him.

No one entered the chapel in which he slept.
It was almost the middle of the afternoon when he awoke.