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October 16 · Virgin, Abbess

St. Thecla

St. Thecla

Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

Traditional feast

October 16
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

September 23 (also listed: September 24)
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Represents

Virgin
Abbess

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 16 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and German Martyrologies. Wyon, Wilson, and Bucelinus.] S. Thecla was a virgin in Wimbome Abbey, who accompanied S. Lioba to Germany when the latter was summoned thither by her kinsman, S. Boniface. Thecla was apparently also related to S. Boniface; she was made by him abbess of the monastery of Kitzingen-on-the-Maine, on the death of S. Hadeloga in 766. Before that she ruled the abbey of Ochsenfurt.

Feast days

Feast: September 23
Traditional: October 16

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St. Theresa

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St. Bolonia

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Sts. Martinian

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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.