Question

why convict said to bless bishop

Answer 1

The Bishop's kind heartedness generosity and compassion revived/ reserrected the convict's faith in God and goodness.He saw in himself a changeb from a beast to a human being.The urge to start a fresh life of stirred his heart but before that he wanted the blessing of the Bishop who had completely affected/ changed his life and thinking and transformed him into a good human being.

Answer 2

convict means theif he went to the Bishops room to kill him and to steal his things like the silver candelabra sticks ,but when he was caught by the cops and was reported to bishop bishop addressed him and made an evil into a man so the convict asked the bishop to blesshim