Saturday, October 11, 2025

Pelagius.

 

r/Catholicism on Reddit: Today's the feast of San Pelayo de Córdoba. A Spanish boy he was martyred in 10th Century Islamic Spain after being torn to pieces with iron pincers, by order of Abdu'l-Rahman, King of the Saracens, who was angered after he refused to have sex with him.
Source: Reddit
Heritage History | Roses of Martyrdom by C. M. Cresswell
St. Pelagius in Art
Christian Iconography
St. Pelagius in Art - Christian Iconography
In the art Pelagius is customarily presented as a beautiful youth, his beauty being an integral part of his story. He was in prison in Muslim Cordoba as hostage ...
Pelagius was a brutish individual with a huge harem of concubines - one of boys and one of girls.
He tortured and murdered many of these.
He was canonised by the RC Church!

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