She was the first inquirer among Nestorian women.

Here many Nestorian women come to fill their earthen pitchers, as the water is not carried through the courts of Christian houses.

It is sufficient to say, that the first impressions of earlier missionaries respecting the purity of Nestorian women were not sustained by subsequent acquaintance.

These were really missionary men; and there seems also to have been even a greater development of the genuine missionary zeal among the Nestorian women.