Pelagia (disambiguation)
Pelagia (Greek: Πελαγία, "Pelagian") usually refers to St Pelagia the Penitent, a legendary Antiochene actress and prostitute in late antiquity.
Pelageya (Russian: Пелагея, "Pelagia") usually refers to the Russian singer Pelageya Sergeyevna Khanova.
Pelagia or Pelageya may also refer to:
People
- St Pelagia of Antioch, in addition to the most famous Pelagia, may refer to:
- St Pelagia the Virgin (d. 3rd century), a martyr who flung herself into the sea during the Diocletianic Persecutions
- St Margaret the Virgin (d. AD 304), a likely legendary martyr killed for refusing the Roman governor's advances
- St Marina the Monk (d. 7th century), a later retelling of the events of Pelagia the Penitent
- St Pelagia of Nicopolis in Armenia, martyred with St Januarius
- St Pelagia of Tarsus or Pelagia the Martyr (d. 4th century), a legendary martyr credited with driving Diocletian's (nonexistent) son to suicide, killed for refusing Diocletian's advances
- St Pelagia of Tinos (19th c.), the nun who discovered the icon of Our Lady of Tinos in 1822 shortly after the establishment of modern Greece
- Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, a Russian astronomer
- Sister Pelagia, the fictional heroine of novels by Boris Akunin
- Pelagia, a fictional character in the novel & film Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Places
- Agia Pelagia ("St Pelagia"), Greece
- Pelagia in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
- 1190 Pelagia, an asteroid named for the Russian astronomer
Organisms
- Fraus pelagia, a species of moth
- Pelagia, a genus of jellyfish
- Listonella pelagia, a species of bacteria
See also
- Marina, the Latinized form of Pelagia
- Margaret (Latin: "Pearl"), a name associated with several SS Pelagia
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