Originally, the Parabalani were quite brave people.
As "nefarious" people risked their lives to carry the dying and dead to the hospitals and cemeteries during an epidemic.
It was about young Christians who, trusting God, took on this life-threatening risk in the first centuries after the birth of Christ, while the pagan authorities could only oblige slaves to do this service.
But after Christianity had risen to the privileged and state religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century, that changed. Nurses became thugs and terrorists.
They ruthlessly attacked people who did not share their beliefs.
One of her most famous victims was the Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher Hypatia.