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- Our Holy Mother Pelagia (461)
- "This Saint was a prominent actress of the city of Antioch, and a
pagan, who lived a life of unrestrained prodigality and led many to
perdition. Instructed and baptized by a certain bishop named Nonnus
(November 10), she departed to the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem, where
she lived as a recluse, feigning to be a eunuch called Pelagius. She
lived in such holiness and repentance that within three or four years
she was deemed worthy to repose in an odour of sanctity, in the middle
of the fifth century. Her tomb on the Mount of Olives has been a place
of pilgrimage ever since." (Great Horologion). The Prologue adds that Pelagia had accumulated a large fortune as a courtesan, all of which she gave away to the poor upon her conversion.
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