"In Paradise too."
"And my mother?"
"In hell."
The boy was grieved, and said to him, "Can I not save my mother? I
would let my blood flow for her for seven years long."
Our Holy Father tells him that he can, and he puts on him a hair-cloth
shirt with a padlock, and throws the key into the water.
And our Holy Father says to him, "When you shall find this key,
your mother will be saved."
He starts off, begging his way as before, and takes seven more years
before arriving in his own country. He goes from house to house asking
alms. His father meets him and asks him where he comes from. He says,
"From Rome." He asks him if he has not seen on the road a boy of his
own age. He says to him, "Yes, yes," and tells him that he has gone on
walking for seven years, shedding his blood to save his mother. And he
keeps on talking about his son. His mother comes out on the staircase
and tells her husband to send that poor man away--that he must be
off from there. But he pays no attention to her. He brings him in,
and tells her that he is going to dine with them. His wife is not
pleased. He sends the servant to market, telling her to buy the
finest fish that she can find. When the young girl comes back, she
goes to the poultry yard to clean the fish. The young man follows her,
and as she was cleaning the fish she found a key inside it.