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===Against Unclean Spirits===
[[Image:Blessed Matrona.jpg|right|thumb|St. Matrona the Righteous Wonderworker of Moscow.]]
Matrona cured people of various torments, cast on them by demons. Once four men brought an old lady to her, who was waving her arms like a windmill. After Matrona read some prayers over her, the woman grew calm and stopped waving her arms. On another occassion, a lady suddenly fell ill with epilepsy; during her attacks, she fell to the floor, foaming at the mouth and squirming and arching convulsively. They brought her to Matrona. The latter sat tensely, leaning forward and stretching out her little hands, and then pronounced: ''“Oh, what a big demon they’ve sent into her!”'' Reading the necessary prayers over the head of the unfortunate possessed woman, Matrona addressed the woman with the words: ''“I shall not cope with your demon alone. If you help me, then you shall live. You need to take the sacrament every Sunday”.'' And that is what the woman did.
Matronushka was forced not only to treat the victims of witchcraft, but to fight with those practicing sorcery. She frequently mentioned that she was waging a struggle against witches and that struggle was taking up a lot of her strength.
==Death==
