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Thecla

Greek saint

The Acts of Paul and Thecla, which was written in the 2nd century and is often untrustworthy, describes her as a member of a noble family in Iconium, Lycaonia, who was converted by the preaching of St Paul. She is said to have followed him, dressed in boy's clothes, to have suffered much for her faith, and to have died in Seleucia. Though the story seems to have a factual basis, it has become much embellished. Her feast day, formerly 23 September, was suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church in 1969.
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L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, which devoted two pages to the discovery, said that the oval portrait, dated to the 4th century, had been found in the catacombs of St Thecla, not far from the Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls, where the apostle is buried.
Vatican archaeologists uncover oldest known portrait of St Paul by Asian News International
Thecla Hartman fell in love on the street - she first saw the man who would become her husband on a stroll.
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This duly resembles the episode in the Acts of Paul and Thecla 7-9, where the young Thecla listens to Paul's preaching through a window6.
P.F. Moretti: La Passio Anastasiae: introduzione, testo critico, ... by Ramelli, Ilaria L.E. / Ancient Narrative
 
 
 
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