“Please, woman”, he said with much kindness, “may I have some grapes? I am dying of thirst.”

However, the cruel and heartless woman scolded him:

“Go to your work, old man. This place produces only salt, not grapes.”

The saint, in order to punish her for her cruelty, performed a miracle.

“I bless this place, always to have salt to produce.”

At once, the vineyard became a vast, salt marsh. It is the very salt marsh that is located today just outside the city of Larnaca. The workers in our days who collect the salt, say that even today when they dig up, they can still find roots and stems of that vine.