Pepino went to the Basilica of St. Francis and asked if he could go in with his donkey. But the Supervisor refused. He went home and asked Father Damico what he could do now. He said that he could go to the Pope.
Pepino goes to the Pope in Rome, but there he wasn’t let through at first. On the piazza of the Vatican he saw an old women, selling flowers. Pepino bought a small bouquet flowers for the Pope and he wrote a note:
Dear and most sacred Holy Father: These flowers are for you. Please let me see you and tell you about my donkey Violetta who is dying, and they will not let me take her to see St. Francis so that he may cure her. I live in the town of Assisi, but I have come all the way here to see you