What Ottomans Did to Captured Nuns Was Worse Than Death In this dark historical documentary, we uncover one of the most haunting stories buried in the Ottoman archives — the fall of the Thessaly convent and the Christian nuns who chose faith over survival. When the empire’s armies reached their gates, prayer turned into defiance, and silence became their only weapon. This is not just a tale of conquest — it’s a story of women who faced a fate worse than death, and whose final prayers still echo beneath the stones of Topkapı Palace. Unearthed from forgotten missionary reports and Byzantine letters, this episode exposes how power sought to destroy spirituality — and how faith endured through the ashes.