Desiring to flee worldliness and having decided to keep his virginity, he prayed, begging the Divine Majesty to make him so ugly and so deformed that no one would want him any more, promising, in return, to keep perpetual chastity, if God did him this favor.
Souhaitant fuir les mondanités, et ayant décidé de garder sa virginité, il pria, suppliant la Majesté Divine de le rendre si laid et si difforme que personne ne pourrait être attiré par lui, lui promettant, en retour, de rester perpétuellement chaste, si Dieu lui accordait cette faveur.