From the Prologue of Ochrid
She lived in the fourth century and was a nun in a women's monastery in Tabennisi. She pretended to be mad in order to conceal her virtue and her ascetical struggle. She performed the filthiest tasks, ate scraps from the dishes, served everyone and everything, and was despised by all. At that time an angel of God revealed the secret about Isidora to the great ascetic Piterim. Piterim came to the women's monastery, and when he saw Isidora, he bowed down to the ground before her. She likewise bowed to him. Then the sisters told Piterim that she was mad. "You are the mad ones," Piterim answered, "but this woman is greater before the Lord than both I and you; I only pray God to grant me what is appointed for her at the Dread Judgment!" Then the sisters were ashamed and begged both Piterim and Isidora for forgiveness. From then on, all began to show honor to Isidora. But she, to escape honor from people, fled from the monastery and died in an unknown place around the year 365.
