As this story goes, there was an old rich noblewoman with many servants - all of which were treated with exceeding cruelty.
One body servant in particular regularly received insults and blows for her pains. One night, the noblewoman was preparing for a social event and the servant was helping her put on her dress. At this moment, the bells of Tyn Church began to ring.
Hearing the bell, the servant stopped attending the noblewoman and knelt immediately to say a prayer as had always been her custom at home. The noblewoman became enraged and started shouting curses and beating the servant for what she took to be laziness. She beat the servant so severely, that the servant died.
Unsurprisingly, the noble woman was able to pay her way out of murder charges and thought she could go on living normally. However, every time she heard the Tyn Church bell ring, she was reminded of the murdered servant girl.
In the end, her conscience gave in and she donated all of her property to the poor, entered a convent, and had a small bell cast and hung in the tower of Tyn Church where it would ring in memory of the dead girl.
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