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The Martyrdom of Saint Matrounah .

The Martyrdom of Saint Matrounah .

On this day St . Matrounah, who was a maid-servant to a Jewish lady, was martyred . She was ofChristian parents, and her mistress used to entice her to adopt the Hebrew religion, but sherefused . Therefore her mistress used to humiliate her, ill treat her, and over-burden her withservitude .One day she accompanied her mistress to the Jewish temple, then she went to the Christianschurch . And when her mistress asked her where she had been and why she did not enter theirassembly, the Saint replied, "God had departed far from the synagogue that is yours, how shall Ienter it? Whereas the place that should be entered is the church which the Lord Christ has boughtwith His blood ." Her mistress became angry at this and beat her harshly, then imprisoned her in adark place where she spent four days without food or drink . She then took her out and beat herpainfully, then she returned her to her imprisonment where she died .After her death, her mistress, because she feared that the authorities would hold her accountablefor her blood, took St . Matrounah to the top of her house and threw her down so that it would besaid that she had fallen by accident . She was accursed by God, her feet slipped and she fell down,died and went to Hell . As for the Saint, she went to the eternal bliss .Her intercession be for us . Amen .