For the Pelagia of Antioch also known as Pelagia the Penitent or Pelagia the Harlot, see Saint Pelagia. For other uses, see Pelagia (disambiguation).
Saint Pelagia
Virgin and martyr
Born
late 3rd century
Residence
Antioch
Died
Antioch
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church Greek Orthodox Church
Major shrine
Antioch
Feast
October 8 (Greek Orthodox) June 9 (Roman Catholic) October 5 (Naples)
Pelagia the Virgin (Greek: Πελαγία), also known as Pelagia of Antioch, was a Saint and virgin martyr who leapt to her death during the Diocletianic Persecution rather than be forced by Roman soldiers to offer a public sacrifice to the pagan gods,[1] or to do "something unspeakable (for she was a virgin)", typically inferred as the Roman soldiers attempting to rape her. [2] She was 15 years old. Originally, her feast day was celebrated on October 8,[3] in common with SS Pelagia the Harlot and Pelagia of Tarsus.[4] In the Roman Catholic Church, it came to be celebrated on June 9[1] and, at Naples in Italy, she is celebrated on October 5.[5]
^ abKirsch (1911).
^Philip R. Amidon, appendix 6.10 to Philostorgius, Church History.
^Wright's Syriac Martyrology.
^Greek Synaxarion.
^Butler (1866), "8 October: St. Pelagia, Penitent".
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