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Barnaby threw himself backwards until his heels and the nape of his neck met gave his body the form of a perfect wheel, then he would juggle in this posture with a dozen knives, and a murmur of admiration would escape the spectators, and pieces of money would rain down upon the carpet.

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The frozen ground was hard to the juggler - the inclement season caused him to suffer both cold and hunger.

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Barnaby did not steal. He never blasphemed God’s name; he lived uprightly, and although he had no wife of his own, he did not covet his neighbor’s.

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Although Barnaby had no wife of his own, he did not covet his neighbor’s.

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“Good father, please forgive me for I spoke like an obtuse man who doesn’t know anything,” Barnaby told the head monk.

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“In order to embrace the monastic life and to show my singular devotion to the Holy Virgin, I would willingly forsake the art of juggling,” Barnaby declared.

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It was in this manner, then, that Barnaby’s deliverance came. It was in this day that he began to be a monk, and escape the wretchedness of his old life.