Thecla
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Thecla 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 apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla.
Thecla in flames, attended by angels, a scene from the Acts of Paul and Thecla carved on the predella of the reredos of the main altar in Tarragona Cathedral
Une Martyre (Saint Thechla) (1891) by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson
Aya Tekla in Seleucia
The Convent of St. Thecla in Maaloula
Maaloula
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Maaloula is a town in southwestern Syria. The town is located in the Rif Dimashq Governorate and is 56 km northeast of Damascus, and is built into the mountainside at an altitude of more than 1,500m.
Thecla
…lived in a cave in Seleucia Cilicia for 72 years, where she continued to spread Christianity. It is also said that Thecla spent the rest of her life in Maaloula, a village in Syria. There, she became a healer and performed many miracles, but remained constantly persecuted. In one instance, as her persecutors…
Overview of Maaloula, 2006
The monastic complex of Saint Sarkis
The Convent of Saint Thecla
View over the town of Maaloula from East to West (2007)