The following story is taken from page 312 of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge's One Hundred and Ten Miracles of Our Lady Mary: Translated From Ethiopic Manuscripts (London: Humphrey Milford, Publisher to the Oxford University Press, 1933). According to Sir Budge's Introduction, this comes from the oldest of the British Museum's portion of Britain's National Library of Ethiopic Manuscripts and was written in the fifteenth century A.D. (pg. xxvii).

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THERE was a certain young man who had loved prayer from his childhood, and he said unto his mother, "Come let us go into the church and make a little prayer." And they both went into the church, and they found there an image of our Lady MARY, and it was weeping for the sin of the world. And the image said unto the youth, "Tell no man what thou hast seen." And that youth became a eunuch of the kingdom of heaven through the prayer of our Lady MARY.