Mazgaba Maṣāḥəft

Title

• Dabra Zamaddo's woman who received the answer to her prayer through her support stick.

Description

In Semrata Ab there was a woman who loved Mary and worked at her church. The clergy gave this woman a support stick, which they called “the stick of the woman.” The woman wanted to go to the place of the saints to pray, and she asked Mary for a sign that she should go. The next day she found her stick outside the church. She asked those in the clergy if they had moved it, and they said they had not. It happened again the next day, and the clergy again said they had not moved it. The woman took a priest aside and told him about her desire to go to the place of the saints. He told her to take her stick and go where she intended. When the woman arrived there, Mary appeared to her. She said there were two distressed people in that country, and that the woman must tell them that Mary would mitigate their distress. The woman did as Mary instructed, but the two distressed people were skeptical. Soon after, Mary appeared before one of these people and, after commanding him to believe what the woman had told him, she relieved his distress.