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The Nun who Feigned Madness

There was a nun who lived in a monastery in the desert of Egypt. This nun feigned madness and demon possession. She ate by herself, because the other nuns disliked her, and so no one ever saw her eating. She worked diligently while she was at the monastery and cleaned up after the other nuns, who brutally abused her at times. Throughout her time at the monastery, she was happy and never returned the ill-treatment. Secretly, she enjoyed the isolation.

Far away, an angel told Saint Piteroum that there was someone that more pious than he was and that person was a woman. If Piteroum wanted to meet this woman, he must go to the monastery. Piteroum went to the monastery and eventually the nun who feigned madness was presented to him. He fell to the ground and praised her. She fell to the ground and praised him. At this display the other nuns made excuses for the nun who feigned madness. Piteroum, however, rebuked them. After they were rebuked, the confessed all of the brutality that they had brought to bear upon the nun. All of this caused upheaval for the nun who feigned madness because the other nuns were providing too much attention to her, so she left the monastery, never to be seen again. The Virgins of Oxyrhyncus

A traveler in Thebaid, visited a monastery in Oxyrhyncus. This monastery was in the center of other monasteries. Twenty thousand virgins and ten thousand monks lived there and their hospitality and charity was immeasurable.