Summary

Chapter 9 — The next day at school, kids mob Damian and Anthony, trying to sell them things. Damian himself later buys statues and medallions of saints. Soon, Damian and Anthony run out of room to put all the stuff they have purchased under their bed. They play the Subbuteo, only to have their father walk in and question where it came from. Anthony says it was an art prize.

The lie worries Damian, who goes to his hermitage to pray. He is unhappy to find that Anthony has been storing new possessions in his hermitage. He decides to do something good with the money, so he buys birds from the pet store and lets them go free just as Saint Francis of Assisi once bought birds from the market to set them free. Saint Francis then appears to Damian, who asks Saint Francis if he...