VERO BEACH, FL -- Some of Josephine Gatchell's neighbors didn't know her name, even after living beside her for 14 years. But they knew who she was.
"That's the crazy lady," said Ken Christman, Gatchell's next door neighbor.
Christman remembers how Gatchell would stand on her lawn, and sometimes in the middle of 31st Avenue, quietly preaching to no one in particular.
Click on the video player to the right to watch the story"She would stand and she would look up in the sky and she would cross herself and rock back and forth in the middle ofthe road," said Jamie Carter, who lives across the street from Gatchell.
Carter says Gatchell lived alone, and that her children had to push her to take her medication.
"I think she really needs help and I wish they had gotten it for her," said Carter.
Police say Gatchell's mental health problems pushed her over the edge.
Saturday, just after he'd finished hearing his last confession at the Holy Cross Catholic Church on Iris Lane, Rev. Michael Massaro felt two pokes in his side.
According to police reports, Josephine Gatchell was standing over him with a large knife. She'd pierced him all the way to his ribs. He remembered her because just two months before Gatchell was arrested at the church for damaging a statue and trying to steal a consecrated communion wafer.
Gatchell told police she stole the eucharistic wafer and stabbed Rev. Massaro, "because she believed he was the Anti-Christ," said John Morrison, spokesperson for the Vero Beach Police Dept.
Rev. Richard Murphy, the pastor at Holy Cross, says Gatchell was not a member of the church, but he says he's willing to extend to her the same forgiveness he would of anyone in his congregation.
"Forgiveness is the name of the game and the poor thing she probably doesn't know what she's doing," said Rev. Murphy.
Rev. Massaro was released from the hospital today. Family members say his recovering and resting at home.
Gatchell stands charged with aggravated battery. She's being held at the Indian River County jail on $500,000 bond.
