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...all soft foods, for which reason they were called Tanahatk literally: "cut off from tan". They built a small chapel over him, which the inhabitants of the place later, in the year 728, built into a church with a dome and beautiful construction, and they placed the saint’s tomb in its foundation.
The passing of Saint Stephanos took place in the Armenian year 735, on the 15th of Hrotits the 5th month of the Armenian calendar and July 21st, on the day of the commemoration of Saint Margaret and Simeon of Aghuash.
The woman who killed the master, eventually coming to mourning, stripped off her garments, took stones, and beat her chest. She struck so much that a stream of blood flowed down. With great lament and bitter cries, she shouted and disgraced her own evil deeds. Coming opposite the monastery to the west, on the other side of the gorge, she dug a place and buried herself up to her waist. Suffering from the summer heat and the winter cold, she wailed and lamented night and day, and confessed her sins. Because of this, moved by the patriarch’s mercy, he asked the Lord for grace for her. One day, at the time of the liturgy, a terrible cry went out from the tomb of the saint:
"May your sins be forgiven you, O woman."
And all who heard it offered glory and thanks to God for His great love for mankind and His non-resentful benevolence. But the woman, although she received forgiveness, did not leave the place. Instead, she stayed there, passed away, and was buried in her pit of repentance; [her grave] stands opposite the monastery.