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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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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 180, 531.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 2 Antoine Guillaumont,La Version Syriaque,inPélagie Le Pénitente: Métamorphoses d’une Légende. Tome 1: Les Textes et Leur Histoire, ed. Pierre Petitmengin, Collection Des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 84 (Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1981), 287–315Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero 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.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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

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    Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Pelagia — ܦܠܓܝܐ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1989.

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