History of the Armenians, Volumes 2-3

For this reason, the saint became violently angry that time. Having pronounced a sentence of great punishment, he left the village. Because of the heat of the day, he went to the sweet-tasting spring which they called Astgh-akn Star-spring, to bathe in it. He ordered his tent to be set up, and he himself placed his bed of rest upon a willow tree or "willow bush". He went out by himself and prayed for many hours, and fell asleep upon it.

The woman, specifically moved by a raging and burning desire, took her companion with her and came to kill the saint, so that they might be bold in their deed. Approaching the tree, she raised the man up and placed the sword in his hand so that he might kill the saint. The man climbed up and saw the saint sleeping. His breath shone like a flame upwards and, hovering, returned again. An angel stood at the head of the bed, holding a canopy over him with his wings. Seeing this, the man faltered and grew weak. All his limbs trembled, moved, and shook with great terror. He regained consciousness only when he climbed down from the tree and told the woman. Then the woman urged him again and incited him with the sweet words of prostitution. Encouraged, she sent him back again. When he saw a vision more wondrous than the first, he weakened even more severely. With a senseless body, as if dead, he fell from the tree. Then the woman, when she saw the man seized by an impossible punishment, instead of repenting, became even more embittered. Incited by the Accuser the Devil, she took the sword, and gathering her clothes, she climbed the tree. Striking the saint with the sword in his side, she poured his immaculate blood upon the wooden bed, just as her Lord was [poured out] upon the wooden instrument of death, because of the intense divine jealousy.

1. A willow tree, Saule. It must have been a very large tree, or perhaps not the variety we know.
2. Gathering up one's garments; "tucking up."