Pelagia of Diveyevo

Blessed Pelagia of Diveyevo was a fool for Christ at Diveyevo Monastery in the nineteenth century, greatly venerated by the faithful. In the calendar of the Orthodox Church in America she is commemorated together with Paraskeva and Maria, two other blessed fools for Christ of Diveyevo.

The sources consulted give no details of her life, so we say here no more than is known with certainty: she struggled through the special way of foolishness for Christ, which the Church honours as a path of humility and sacrifice. Their feast is on 26 August, according to the new calendar.