The Festival Dedicated to the Anniversary of the Vision of Agia Pelagia and Other Rituals

Authors

  • Evy Johanne Håland Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2012410120

Keywords:

Greece, history, legends, memory, myth, religious festivals // Grčija, zgodovina, legende, spomin, mit, verski prazniki

Abstract

The local festival dedicated to the Anniversary of the Vision of Agia (Saint) Pelagia or Osia (Venerable, Blessed, Saint) Pelagia is celebrated on the Greek island of Tinos and is dedicated to one of the most recent Orthodox saints, Saint Pelagia, a nun that was sanctified in 1971. After the great Greek War of Liberation (1821) broke out, the pious nun Pelagia had several mystical visions that lead to the discovery of the miraculous icon of the Annunciation.

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Lokalni festival, namenjen obletnici Videnja agie (svetnice) ali osie (častite, blažene, svetnice) Pelagije, praznujejo na grškem otoku Tinosu in je posvečen eni najnovejših pravoslavnih svetnic, leta 1971 za sveto razglašeno redovnico Agio Pelagijo. Po izbruhu grške osvobodilne vojne (1821) je imela pobožna redovnica Pelagija več mističnih videnj, ki so vodila v odkritje čudežne ikone Oznanjenja.

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Published

12.10.2012

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Håland, E. J. (2012). The Festival Dedicated to the Anniversary of the Vision of Agia Pelagia and Other Rituals. Traditiones, 41(1), 243–262. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2012410120

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 1 (2012): RITUAL YEAR 7 / RITUALNO LETO 7

Section

Co-designing Performances, Co-designing Heritages / So-oblikovanje uprizoritev, so-oblikovanje dediščin

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