The lives of Ss. Pelagia and Thaïs are offered here in commemoration of their feast days of October 8.

English translation of the Life of Saint Pelagia the Harlot written by the Deacon James and translated into Latin by Eustochius and English translation of the Life of St Thaïs the Harlot from a Latin translation of a Greek text by an anonymous author in Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources (Cistercian Studies, vol. 106)(B. Ward SLG, Trans.) Trappist, KY: Cistercian Publications. 1987