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In 1822, Muslims captured two Greek Christian women and attempted to force them to convert to Islam. The women refused. As punishment, they were smeared with honey on their heads and tied up in the open, exposed to the stings of wasps as well as to the abuse of passersby. The wife of Zafeirakis was built into the wall of the Church of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki up to her neck. She was left there for days, exposed to the entertainment of the wild mob that gathered to curse her and strike her protruding head with sticks. She did not waver for a moment. Strengthened until her last breath by prayer, she never abandoned her Christian faith. Her martyrdom lasted five days. A passing gypsy woman, seeking to hasten her end, threw a large stone at her head. Thus, the blessed woman delivered her heroic soul into the hands of God, Whom she had never denied. The other Greek Christian woman, Maria, also refused to renounce her faith. For this, Ebub Lubut enclosed her in a sack with deadly snakes, where she was martyred. The historian Eustathios Stougiannakis writes: “The acute venom that diffused into the veins of the martyr from the bites, however, killed her in a sweet lethargy. Praying until the last moment for her executioners, she invoked the Most High and the Virgin.” The lifeless bodies of these holy women were eventually thrown into the sea.
