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to me, that I might of my own will have lived here with thee? Woe is me! that thou hast so long concealed thyself! How hast thou passed through the old enemy's snares; and now hast entered into the eternal life! ' Then Agapitus, hearing this, began to be much amazed, and went hastily to the abbot, and showed him all; and he thereupon came thither, and fell upon the holy corpse, and said: ' Euphrosyne, bride of Christ, and offspring of holy parents! be not thou forgetful of thy fellow-servants and of this minster; but pray to the Lord for us, that He may make us come manfully to the harbour of safety, and make us partakers with Him and His saints.' Then he bade that the brethren should assemble, and reverently commit the holy corpse to the grave. Then when they found that she was a woman, they gloried in God, Who in the womanly and tender nature worketh such wonders. There came thither a certain brother who was one-eyed, and he then, with weeping, kissed the holy corpse, and touched her; and his eye was given to him again, and they all glorified God, of Whom are all such things as are good; and they then buried her in the sepulchre of her fathers. Then her father paid into the minster and into God's Church a great part of his possessions, and entered the minster with the most part of his riches, and dwelt ten years in the cell wherein his daughter had before lived, and exercised himself in leading a good life; and then departed to the Lord. Then the abbot and his company buried him beside his daughter; and the day of their departure is honoured in the minster unto this present day; to the glory of God the Father and His only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, together with the Holy Ghost; to Whom be glory and worship for ever and ever. Amen.