Home >> Society >> Religion and Spirituality >> Christianity >> People >> Saints >> P >> Saint Pelagia of Tarsus Saint Pelagia of Tarsus Hagiography, with troparion and kontakion. Pelagia of Tarsus Virgin and martyr. Died in the Diocletian persecution, around 300, after she refused to marry the emperor's son and became a Christian. Roasted to death inside a hollow bronze bull.
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