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Saint Pelagius Of Cordova

Pelagius of Cordova

The martyrdom of Saint Pelagius of Cordova
Martyr
Bornc. 912, Asturias, Spain
Died926, Cordova
Major shrineOviedo
FeastJune 26
Patronageabandoned people, torture victims, Castro Urdiales, Spain


Saint Pelagius of Cordova (c. 912–926) is said to have been a Christian boy left by his uncle at the age of ten as a hostage with the Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III of al-Andalus, in trade for a clerical relative previously captured by the Moors, the bishop Hermoygius. Pelagius was intended to be eventually released in an exchange of hostages.

The exchange never occurred and Pelagius remained a captive for three years. The modern version of the story is that according to the testimony of other prisoners, his courage and faith was such that the Caliph was impressed with him when he had attained the age of thirteen. The Caliph offered him his freedom if Pelagius converted to Islam. The boy, having remained a pious Christian, refused the Caliph's offer.

The original version of the story took into account the beauty of the boy and the desire of the caliph. This construct "served an obvious polemical purpose for European Christians in their demonizing of the Muslims, who are pictured as prone to same-sex desire." At the same time, the flattery of his beauty by early Christian choirs suggests an awareness on the part of the Christians themselves of the dangers of such attractions,[1] and has prompted modern observers to remark that "That liturgy [...] focuses as intently on Pelagius's beauty as did the caliph."[2]

In the eroticized version of the story, his beauty was such that the Caliph fell in love with him when he had attained the age of thirteen. The boy, having remained a pious Christian, refused the Caliph's advances, striking the monarch and insulting him. Enraged, Abd-ar-Rahman had the boy tortured (which he survived for six hours) and dismembered.[3] Other accounts have him flung from a parapet after stripping himself naked, although these alternative accounts uphold his refusal to fulfill the Caliph's wishes.[4]

Pelagius was later enshrined as a Christian martyr and canonized as "Saint Pelagius." His observation is celebrated on June 26. [5] The cult of Saint Pelagius is thought to have provided spiritual energy for centuries to the Iberian Reconquista, and is seen by some modern scholars as part of a pattern of portraying Islamic morality as inferior to other moral theories.[6][7] He is also the subject of a poem by Rhoswitha of Gandersheim.

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Notes

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ "Ganymede/Son of Getron: Medieval Monasticism and the Drama of Same-Sex Desire" by V. A. Kolve in Speculum, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Oct., 1998), pp. 1014-1067
3. ^ Mark D. Jordan, The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology, Chicago, 1997; pp. 10-28
4. ^ Sarah Salih: Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval Europe: Woodbridge: DS Brewer: 2002;
5. ^ [2] The Martyrology of the Sacred Order of Friars Preachers
6. ^ Walter Andrews and Mehmet Kalpaklı, The Age of Beloveds, Duke University Press, 2005; p. 2
7. ^ Greg Hutcheon "The Sodomitic Moor: Queerness in the Narrative of the Reconquista" in Glen Burger and Stephen Kruger (eds) Queering the Middle Ages: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 2001
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Comunidad Autónoma del Principado de Asturias
Comunidá Autónoma del Principáu d'Asturies

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Anthem: Asturias, patria querida
Capital Oviedo
Official language(s) Spanish; Asturian has special status
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State Party  Spain
Type Cultural
Criteria i, ii, iii, iv
Reference 313
Region Europe and North America

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Inscription 1984  (8th Session)
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