The Holy Martyr Pelagia.
Saint Pelagia was from Tarsus in Cilicia and contested in martyrdom under Diocletian, in 288; she was cast into a bull fashioned of bronze, which had been heated with fire.
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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