Once, in Egypt, there lived a certain man who had a pious custom of feeding beggars at his house. Once, he met a certain man who was starving by the roadside. He invited him to his home, and he gave him supper to eat. After the meal, the host went to a certain curtain; he pulled it, and there was an icon of Christ behind it.
As he began his evening prayers, his guest started to scream at him, to blaspheme against Christ, and to curse God for his misfortunes. The host immediately kicked him out of the house, and returned to resume his prayers. At that moment, Christ Himself appeared to the man and said: "I have been putting up with that man and feeding him for twenty years, and you couldn't endure him for a single night?"