St. Matrounah was a maid-servant to a Jewish woman. This martyr was of Christian parents, and her mistress used to entice her to adopt the Hebrew religion, but St. Matrounah refused and that is why her mistress used to humiliate her, ill treat her, and over-burden her with servitude. On some days, the saint accompanied her mistress to the Hebrew Assembly, then returned and went to the Christian church. And when her mistress asked her where she had been and why she did not enter their assembly, the saint replied,
"God has departed far away from the synagogue that is yours, how shall I enter it? Whereas the place that should be entered is the church which the Lord Christ has bought with His blood."St. Matrounah's mistress was angry at this and beat her harshly, then imprisoned her in a dark place where she spent four days without food or drink. She then took her out and beat her sorely, then she returned the saint to her prison chamber where she died. After her death, her mistress, (because she feared that the government would hold her accountable for her blood), took her to the top of her house and threw her down so that it would be said that she had fallen by chance. She was accursed by God, her feet slipped, fell down, and died.
May her intercession be for us
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