We were having a
meeting in another house, when a quarrelsome woman entered, having a
large stick in her hand, and began to beat her daughter and
daughter-in-law, and she carried off her daughter; but the other
remained, though sorely bruised, saying, 'I will spill my blood, but
will not leave the place of prayer.' The women who fear God wept
much because this woman did so.
"We went to the sacrament, and there was a company of women who
separated themselves from the others, and were weeping in one corner
of the church. Some very bad women came to them, and said, 'Let us
rise up and dance, because they are weeping.' Another, in anger,
took the sacrament from the mouth of one of them, and gave it to her
little granddaughter. There was much confusion in the village, and
they seemed like those who cried, 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians.'
One said, 'I wish neither Satan nor God, but only Mar Shimon.' Once,
when we were assembled with the women, and Moressa was speaking, a
wicked man fired a pistol to frighten us. But the women encouraged
us, saying, 'Go on, and speak louder, that he may hear.' And when he
heard my sister speak of the wickedness of man's heart, he cried
out, 'Those words must have been for me.
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