Biblical Persons Asia Minor Saint Thecla
Saint Thecla
In Iconium (Konya), among those who embraced the Good News, through the
preaching of Saint Paul, there was a certain young girl called Thecla.
She broke up her engagement and decided to dedicate her life to God. Her
family and, in particular, her fiance, could not accept her conversion
and, being unable to make her change her mind, they denounced her and
had her arrested. Condemned to death and miraculously saved, Thecla went
to Seleucia (Silifke) and took refuge in a cave, where she lived until
very old age. Her commemoration falls on September 23.
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