Petronius returned to his cubiculum; but Vinicius went to look from a distance at the prison, and thence betook himself to the slope of the Vatican hill,--to that hut of the quarryman where he had received baptism from the hands of the Apostle. It seemed to him that Christ would hear him more readily there than in any other place; so when he found it, he threw himself on the ground and exerted all the strength of his suffering soul in prayer for mercy, and so forgot himself that he remembered not where he was or what he was doing.
Petronius visszatért cubiculumába, Vinicius pedig elment, hogy távolból láthassa a börtönt, aztán a Vaticanus-domb lejtőjére, a fossor kunyhójába sietett, ahol az apostol kezéből vette fel a keresztséget. Úgy érezte, hogy Krisztus ebben a kunyhóban inkább meghallgatja, mint bárhol másutt.