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"Pelagia and Philammon" A. Hacker
(z książki: "Hypatia" C.Kingsley)
Pelagia and Philammon are sister and brother, separated in childhood. Philammon becomes a monk, Pelagia a dancer and courtesan. They are reunited in Alexandria only to be separated in the chaos following Hypatia's murder. Twenty years later, Philammon, now Abbot of his monastery, goes in search of his sister. Pelagia meanwhile has become a Christian hermit in the desert. She has given away all her finery except for 'one bracelet of gold, of large size and strange workmanship, engraven with foreign characters, which no one could decipher.' Philammon finds his sister at the point of death and administers the holy sacraments to her.