Saint George of Drama

A woman went to see the elder and had not managed to put her foot in his cell when he stopped her and told her: “Your hands are on fire. They are burning but we don't see the fire. What work do you do?” She responded that she was a midwife. “How many children did you kill?” the Elder asked her. She responded, “none.” He said, “Shall I tell you? In such and such a village, that such and such woman, you helped in the abortion...” And he mentioned to her by name the five circumstances. She remained speechless, with tears she knelt asking forgiveness. “Get up,” the elder told her. “You will go beg in seven villages, at such and such it needs a little bridge, at such and such a fountain, at such and such a set of vestments for the poor priest...” And to the remaining ones he told her to do necessary good things. After a year she returned, and before she told him what she managed to do, the elder first told her what she did, then forgave her for her great humility and her attempt to fulfill her canon completely.

The Blessed Elder George Karslides, by Monk Moses the Athonite, published (in English) by Orthodox Kypseli, Thessaloniki, Greece, page 91