A couple desperate to have a baby went to
their priest and asked him to pray for them. "Next week I am going to Rome and while
I am there I will light a candle for you," he replied.
Three years later the priest returned to
his parish and went to see the young couple's house and found the wife to be pregnant and
busy attending to two sets of twins. The priest felt very elated and asked the girl where
her husband was so that he could congratulate him.
"He has gone away for a while,"
came the harried reply.
"Where has he gone," asked the
priest.
She replied," To Rome, to blow the
damn candle out!"