Reading from the Synaxarion:
This Saint was a prominent actress of the city of Antioch, and a
pagan, who lived a life of unrestrained prodigality and led many to
perdition. Instructed and baptized by a certain bishop named Nonnus (Saint
Nonnus is commemorated Nov. 10), she departed for the Mount of Olives
near Jerusalem, where she lived as a recluse, feigning to be a eunuch
called Pelagius. She lived in such holiness and repentance that within
three or four years she was deemed worthy to repose in an odour of
sanctity, in the middle of the fifth century. Her tomb on the Mount of
Olives has been a place of pilgrimage ever since.
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
In thee the image was preserved with exactness, O Mother; for taking
up thy cross, thou didst follow Christ, and by thy deeds thou didst
teach us to overlook the flesh, for it passeth away, but to attend to
the soul since it is immortal. Wherefore, O righteous Pelagia, thy
spirit rejoiceth with the Angels.
Kontakion in the Second Tone
With fasting didst thou consume thy body utterly; with vigilant prayer
didst thou entreat thy Fashioner that complete forgiveness of thy
former deeds be granted thee, which, O Mother, thou didst receive. The
path of repentance hast thou shown to us.
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