After 40 days of religious formation, novice Michaela had learned every aspect of religious life. She especially remembered the days when she was assigned to work in the carpentry shop at the warehouse, where she maintained crosses and other equipment for crucifixion. Michaela imagined herself taking off her loincloth and breastband and going to the post prepared for her to be scourged on her back, buttocks and thighs. Then they would put a real crown of thorns on her, after which she would feel terrible pain. Michaela imagined what terrible pain and fatigue she would feel, first from the scourging, then from carrying the heavy cross to the place of execution, nailing it to the cross with 3 nails, and finally hanging on the cross from noon to sunset, fighting for every breath, irritating the wounds from the nails, the flogging and the crown of thorns. The pain, suffering and fatigue of her body and soul caused her ecstasy, she only dreamed of that day. After 40 days, novice Michaela and 11 other novice nuns appeared solemnly in the monastery church, where the main superior of the monastery congratulated them on their exemplary service to God and that they had learned the monastic life exceptionally well. After that, novice Michaela and the rest of her colleagues from the order received a special huge prayer book, with the lives of martyrs and descriptions of tortures that were to spiritually prepare them for the marriage to Christ. They were to spend the entire 33 days in complete isolation, in complete silence (apart from silent prayer) and in complete silence from the rest in the basement of the monastery in dark, unlit cells, receiving bread and water once a day, having at their disposal only a bucket for relieving themselves (taken away every evening), straw and a pillow for sleeping. Apart from sleeping, eating a short meal and relieving themselves of their physiological needs, they were to spend all their time in uninterrupted recitation of prayers preparing them for the suffering and suffering associated with their marriage to Christ, studying the lives of martyrs who died naked on the cross in agony, thrown to wild animals, burned at the stake, etc. They were to learn that they were called to a life of poverty, chastity and obedience to Christ, that their only purpose in life was martyrdom on the cross, and that their upcoming marriage to Christ was to show them what their destiny was.