Comments for the name Pelagia

This is the name of the daughter and heroine in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin".

Another version (or perhaps another Saint Pelagia) is that she was a young prostitute. After hearing a bishop preaching, she converted to Christianity. She disguised herself as a monk and shut herself away on the Mount of Olives. She died after three years of strict fasting and prayer.

Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil was the wife of the Marquis de Sade, who, from 1801 to 1803, was incarcerated at Prison Sainte-Pélagie in Paris.

Pelagia was the second daughter of the first Romanov Tsar Michael I and his wife Eudoxia.