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Thecla
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Thecla
Thecla
or
Tecla
(,
Thékla
) was a
saint
of the
early Christian
Church, and a reported follower of
Paul the Apostle
. The earliest record of her life comes from the ancient
apocrypha
l
Acts of Paul and Thecla
. Although
Church Fathers
Tertullian
and
Jerome
rejected her story, she enjoyed great popularity in the Byzantine period.
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