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About St. Thecla
b. 1st century, traditional · Feast September 23 · Virgin
Iconian virgin (1st century, traditional), of Lycaonia, converted by St. Paul's preaching and according to the apocryphal "Acts of Paul and Thecla" (2nd-century romance) escaped martyrdom by fire and beasts and lived as hermitess at Seleucia. "Equal-to-the-Apostles" in Eastern tradition; pre-Congregation cultus, biography apocryphal/legendary.
St. Thecla is the patron saint of Women Disciples, Martyrs and Protection from Fire and Wild Beasts.
