I enjoyed listening and looking at them. “My dear friends and comrades,” said I, “don’t worry about my resigning my commission, for I have done so already. I have sent in my papers this morning and as soon as I get my discharge I shall go into a monastery—it’s with that object I am leaving the regiment.” When I had said this every one of them burst out laughing. “You should have told us of that first, that explains everything, we can’t judge a monk.”
Apparently, this kind of conversion moment is common in the lives of Saints.
