Marina the Monk (Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲛⲁ ⲛ̅ⲁⲥⲕⲏⲧⲏⲥ)

We got a YENTL situation here today: Marina the Monk (Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲛⲁ ⲛ̅ⲁⲥⲕⲏⲧⲏⲥ).

Seems after her mother died, her father intended to marry her off and then retire to the Monastery of Qannoubine in the Kadisha Valley of Lebanon. That's what SHE wanted to do too! So she pulled a Yentl, and lived an austere life, happily ever after.

A time after her father died, the Abbot
(“Bud Abbott?" /
“Sure'd be nice if you got one of these right.
No, Rose, THE Abbot.” #TheGoldenGirls)
sent Marina off with two other monks to attend to some business outside the monastery walls.

During the night, the Innkeeper's daughter lost her, uh, maidenhead at the hands of a Roman soldier, who told her, should she find herself preggers, to say, "it was the monk, Father Marinos, who has done this to me".

Fast Forward, the Inn Keeper comes to the monastery with the baby, she says nothing, they throw Marina out of the place, and she raises the child outside the gates of the monastery.

Fast Forward some more, the monks convince the Abbot to allow Marina to return, which he did, but he imposed heavy penalties like the "hard labour of cooking, cleaning and carrying water in addition to regular monastic duties and caring for the child" (which basically sounds like a Thursday over here, anyone?).

Well she gets sick and dies. They go to prepare her body for burial, TA-DA ! low and behold, The Desert Father is a Mother! So, the Abbot comes to the body to weep bitterly for the wrongs done, the inn keeper went and wept for the pain and suffering which he had unjustly brought upon Marina, during the funeral one of the monks who was blind in one eye received full sight, and
p.s.:
God allowed a devil to torment the inn keeper's daughter and the soldier until they came to her body and confessed their iniquity in front of everyone and asked for forgiveness.

THEE end.