Pelagia: Name Day
Orthros keeps the name day for Pelagia on October 8 on the New Calendar and October 21 on the Old Calendar: the feast of St Pelagia the Penitent.
The saint
St Pelagia the PenitentPelagia was a celebrated actress of Antioch, known in her earlier life as much for her wealth and her retinue as for a beauty she took great care to maintain, remembered by her birth name Margarita, meaning pearl, though the sources consulted differ on whether her conversion belongs to the fourth or the fifth century, and the record here is not precise enough to fix it.Read the life ›Other saints named Pelagia
St Pelagia of TarsusMay 4
Questions
- When is the name day for Pelagia?
- Orthros keeps the name day for Pelagia on October 8 on the New Calendar and October 21 on the Old Calendar.
- Which saint's feast is the name day for Pelagia?
- It is the feast of St Pelagia the Penitent.