On the news that the Porpoise fleet, composed of six hundred great ships, was in sight of Alca, the bishop ordered a solemn procession.

The cathedral chapter, the elected magistrates, the members of Parliament, and the clerics of the University entered the Cathedral and, taking up St.Orberosia's shrine, led it in procession through the town, followed by the entire people singing hymns.

The holy patron of Penguinia was not invoked in vain.

Nevertheless, the Porpoises besieged the town both by land and sea, took it by assault, and for three days and three nights killed, plundered, violated, and burned, with all the indifference that habit produces.
Our astonishment cannot be too great at the fact that, during those iron ages, the faith was preserved intact among the Penguins.

The splendour of the truth in those times illumined all souls that had not been corrupted by sophisms.