The Life of Saint Pelagia the Harlot, the vita of a legendary 4th- or 5th-century Christian hermit and penitent, Saint Pelagia of Antioch, has her buil[d] herself a cell on the mount of Olives, where she lived a holy life disguised as a monk and wrought...many wonders. A severe ascetic, she died few years later, and the holy fathers bore her body to its burial. Christian tradition places her cell and tomb at the site of the zawiya, adjacent from the southwest to the former Church of the Ascension.