When I was in the city of Antioch, I heard this story from one of the priests of the (Antiochene) Church: “The patriarch Anastasius’, he said, “used to tell this anecdote. A monk of the monastery of Abba Severianus was sent on an errand in the district of Eleutheropolis. He lodged in the home of a Christ-loving farmer, who had an only child, a girl, whose mother was already dead. The monk spent several days in the farmer’s house, and the devil, who always wages war against man, put into the brother’s mind unclean thoughts: he fell into temptation for the girl and began to look for an occasion to rape her. <The father having gone to Ascalon on business, the monk approached the girl to fulfill his desire; but she reproached him and he repented.> The monk came to his senses and, recovering his sobriety of mind, left the farmer’s house and went back to his monastery; there he threw himself at the feet of the hegumen (begging) never to be sent out of the monastery again. And after three months he migrated to God.”
(transl. Leah Di Segni)