Female name
When is Pelagia’s name day?
Πελαγία · Pelagia
Main name day
Saint Pelagia
The Greek name Πελαγία (Pelagia) is celebrated on 4 May.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint Pelagia of TarsusMartyr from Tarsus in Cilicia.Pelagia was born in Tarsus in Cilicia and lived in Rome under Emperor Diocletian, raised in a pagan household. According to tradition, she saw the bishop of Rome in a vision urging her to be baptised, and she secretly went and was baptised a Christian, giving her costly belongings to the poor.Read more
- Saint Pelagia of Tinos18th–19th centuryNun of the Kechrovouni monastery on Tinos (1752–1834) who, according to tradition, was led by visions to the finding of the icon of Our Lady of Tinos in 1823.Pelagia, born Loukia, was born in 1752 in the village of Kambos on Tinos, daughter of the priest Nikiforos Negrepontis. Orphaned of her father, at 15 she entered the Kechrovouni Monastery as a novice and became a nun under her aunt's name, Pelagia.Read more
- Venerable Pelagia the Penitent5th centuryA woman of Antioch who, according to her Life, gave up a dissolute life after hearing a sermon by Bishop Nonnus, was baptised, and lived as an ascetic in Jerusalem until her death in the 5th century.Pelagia lived in Antioch and, according to her Life, had given herself over to a dissolute life. She happened to hear a sermon on purity by Bishop Nonnus, which shook her to the core.Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Pelagia
- In Greek
- Πελαγία