Pelagia
Pelagia (also known as Pelagius ; allegedly died on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem ) is considered one of the great penitents in church history and is venerated as the patron saint of comedians and actors .
Legend
Your vita was written in Greek in the second half of the 5th century by an editor who wrote under the pseudonym Jakobus . He claims to have been an eyewitness to the events and to have been acquainted with Pelagia. The Vita was first translated into Syrian , later into Latin and many other languages. Accordingly, Pelagia led a life as a prostitute , actress and dancer in Antioch under the name Margarita or Marina . At a sermon given by the Egyptian bishop Nonnos, whose deacon the author claims to be, Pelagia was moved inwardly, was converted and was baptized. She gave jewelry and money to the poor, pretended to be a man and moved into a monastery cell on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem under the name of Pelagius . There she died after a few years of hard penance and her true gender was "discovered" in the presence of James . The Chronographia of Theophanes the following is often said Nonnos with Saint Nonnus identified († 470/71), without the part is for the tradition hints. The year of Pelagia's death is set in 457 for no reason.
Research today sees in the Vita Pelagias in general a contamination of the account of a Syrian penitent in a sermon by John Chrysostom with features of Pelagia of Antioch . Due to the ideal typical character of the biography, the historicity of the Pelagia is doubted.
Hermann Usener had argued that the legend of Pelagia is based on a transformation of mythical material that can be assigned to the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite , which is rejected in today's research.
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Pelagie la pénitente. Métamorphoses d'une legend. Edited by Pierre Petitmengin u. a. Séminaire d'Histoire des Textes de l'École Normale Supérieure. Etudes augustiniennes, Paris (edition of the Greek, Latin, Syrian, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian and Slavic text traditions)
- Volume 1: Les textes et leur histoire: grec, latin, syriaque, arabe, arménien, géorgien, slavon. 1981, ISBN 2-85121-036-X .
- Volume 2: La survie dans les littératures européennes. 1984, ISBN 2-85121-061-0 .
literature
- Leonore Bazinek: Pelagia of Jerusalem. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 161-166.
- Heike Grieser : Pelagia v. Jerusalem . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 8 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1999, Sp. 5 .
- Philip Pattenden: Review by: Petitmengin: Pélagie la Pénitente. Métamorphoses d'une légende, Tome I: Les textes et leur histoire (1981). In: The Classical Review, 33 (1983), pp. 114-116.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Theophanes, Chronographia 141 Bonn (= 91.27 de Boor ).
- ↑ On the problem, see Alan Cameron : The Poet, the Bishop, and the Harlot. In: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Volume 41, 2000, pp. 175-188 ( PDF ); extended version in the same: Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2016, pp. 81–90.
- ↑ John Chrysostom: Homily 67 Matt.
- ↑ Hermann Usener: Legends of Pelagia. Festschrift for the XXXIV assembly of German philologists and school men in Trier. Georgi, Bonn 1879, pp. XX – XXIV ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pelagia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pelagius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian penitent and patron saint of comedians and actors |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century or 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century or 5th century |