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Pelagia - ܦܠܓܝܐ

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Pelagia was a circus dancer and prostitute in Antioch, but she converted to Christianity and became a transvestite monk, "Pelagion," living in Jerusalem.1

Names

  • ܦܠܓܝܐ1
  • Pelagia
  • Pélagie1
  • Pēlagīyā
  • Pēlagīyā1
  • St Pelagia3

Sex

female1

Notes

Pelagia was a circus dancer and prostitute in Antioch, but she converted to Christianity and became a transvestite monk, "Pelagion," living in Jerusalem.1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 180, 531.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Antoine Guillaumont, "La version syriaque." in Pierre Petitmengin (ed.), Pélagie le Pénitente: Métamorphoses d’une légende. I: Les textes et leur histoire, Séminaire d’histoire des textes de l’École Normale Supérieure (Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1981)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Pelagia.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Pelagia — ܦܠܓܝܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1989.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Pelagia — ܦܠܓܝܐ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson. Vol. 1 of Gateway to the Syriac Saints, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1989.

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Entry Title: Pelagia — ܦܠܓܝܐ

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  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Entries adapted from the work of Jean Maurice Fiey
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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