_ 375 _ decided to become a Christian. Since they were very noble women, children of the ruler (of) Shiraz, a leading kingdom in the Persian empire, and belonged to the leaders of the clan of Mohammed, of the house of Zaid, I received them at midnight in the house of one of my spiritual sons, to see what the Moors would decide. Later the following day there was a great commotion in this country among the Moors who were astonished at what had happened. In the end I provoked the husband to debate publicly before his wife and daughter. He confessed the Most Holy Trinity and compelled by the debate, he was moved to become a Christian. He begged me for more time for further study but, on the advice of the Moors, he disappeared, forsaking his wife and daughter, so as not to give offence to his religion, he being a man in whom they placed so much trust. A few days later he tried to justify himself by proclaiming and writing from the Kingdom of Lar in Persia that I was a sorcerer, telling and advising the people that they should avoid me; since I produced the sorcery in the handbell with which I summoned the children to catechism, as they from that time onwards showed by covering their ears and fleeing when they heard me ringing the bell through the streets. The great love and respect
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