'I received some documents - they were letters from Ukraine describing the terrible things happening to a monastery. They were written by two women, Feodosia Varavva and Yefrosinia Shchur.' Their faces turned white. There was a stunned silence, then a cry, muffled in tears: 'We wrote those documents. I'm Feodosia and this is Yefrosinia'. I couldn't speak. I waited for them to go on. 'We brought those documents to Moscow last year, hoping to find a foreigner to give them to. It was difficult, but eventually we found a French schoolteacher from Paris. We never heard whether she was able to take them back with her.' 'What do you want me to do with them? What can I do for you?' I asked. The reply was instantaneous and decisive: 'Take the documents back, then be our voice and speak for us.'