In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

Every day for a whole year, all kinds of holy men, hermits, scholars and nobles came, and related to the priests their deeds of ____(1)____, and the priests in solemn council heard their claims. At last, they decided that the one who seemed to be the greatest lover of ____(2)____ was a rich man who had that very year given all his ____(3)____ to the poor. So they gave him the plate of gold, but when he took it in his hand, it turned into ____(4)____ lead; though, when he dropped it on the floor, to his ____(5)____, it became gold again.