“She appeared with us when the waves of rebellion that flooded the state subsided and began to decline. It was a dark and gloomy time, which replaced a terrible and violent time. Crowds of people from devastated cities and villages wandered along the roads and died on the roadsides, and ashes were not yet overgrown in places where once prosperous monasteries stood. But our monastery - an ancient monastery, and it is not known who founded it in this valley - survived, although the adversities common to the whole country did not bypass it..."