> * Euphrosyne, virgin (fifth century?)
> - entered religious life disguised as a man named Smaragdus
>
>She did this because she knew that if she entered a nunnery, her father would reclaim her.
The old man, however, resorted in his grief to the Abbot of the monastery; the Abbot referred
him to "Smaragdus" for comfort and counsel. For years therefore the father visited his
daughter and received such comfort from the words of Smaragdus that he declared it was
good as if he had seen his daughter Euphrosyne. Eventually Euphrosyne fell ill, and on her
death-bed revealed her true identity to her father, asking him to lay her out after her death.
A very touching story, and doubtless true. Oriens.
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