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See also:THECLA, ST , one of the most celebrated See also:saints in the See also:Greek See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church (where she is commemorated on the 24th of See also:September) and in the Latin Church (where her festival is the 23rd of September). She is honoured with the See also:title of " protomartyr." The centre of her cult was See also:Seleucia, in Isaur'ia. Her See also:basilica, See also:south of Seleucia, on the See also:mountain, was See also:long a very popular See also:place of See also:pilgrimage, and is mentioned in the two books of St See also:Basil of Seleucia. The See also:great popularity of the See also:saint is due more particularly to her Acta, which in all their forms derive from the apocryphal See also:work known as the Acta See also:Pauli et Theclae. According to her Ada, Thecla was See also:born of illustrious parentage at See also:Iconium, and came under the See also:personal teaching of the apostle See also:Paul. In her eighteenth See also:year, having broken her engagement with Thamyris, to whom she had been betrothed, she was accused by her relations of being a See also:Christian. Armed with the sign of the See also:cross, she threw herself on the pyre, but the flames were extinguished by a sudden See also:rain. She then went to
See also:Antioch, where she was exposed to See also:wild beasts, then fastened to bulls in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order that she might be torn asunder, and finally thrown into a See also:- PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)
pit full of serpents; but she was delivered from all these perils. She converted many See also:heathen. Returning to Iconium, she withdrew into a mountain solitude, and became distinguished by many virtues and miracles. In spite of their highly fabulous See also:character, which caused them to be more than once condemned by the Church, the Ada of Paul and Thecla, which date hack to the 2nd See also:century, are among the most interesting monuments of See also:ancient Christian literature.
See Acta Sanctorum, September, vi. 546–568; J. A. See also:Lipsius, Acta apostolorum apocrypha (See also:Leipzig, 1891), i. 235–269; C. See also:Schmidt, Acta Pauli (Leipzig, 1905), where an See also:attempt is made to prove that the Acta of Paul and Thecla formed an integral See also:part of the Acta Pauli; see also APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE. W. M. See also:Ramsay, The Church in the See also:Roman See also:Empire before A.D. P70 (See also:London, 1893), pp. 375 seq.; C. Holzey, See also:Die Thekla-Akten, dare Verbreitung and Beurtheilung in der Kirche (See also:Munich, 1905). (H.
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