Sunday, March 2, 2008

thecla

thecla

The last thecla video

(14 minutes ago)





- The Acts of Paul and Thecla (Acta Pauli et Theclae) is an apocryphal story of St Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla. ...
- The Acts of Paul and Thecla, sometimes called the Acts of Thecla, circulated separately and as a part of a larger manuscript called the Acts of Paul.
- The most famous of several saints named Thecla is Thecla of Iconium. Other saints of this name include a martyr from Gaza, an African martyr, ...
- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LIFE OF THE HOLY MARTYR THECLA OF ICONIUM, EQUAL TO THE APOSTLES translated by ...
- According to a popular second century tale, Acts of Paul and Thecla, she was a native of Iconomium who was so impressed by the preaching of St. Paul on ...
- While Paul was thus speaking in the midst of the church in the house of Onesiphorus, a certain virgin Thecla, the daughter of Theocleia, betrothed to a man ...
- Thecla's story is one of many in the Apocryphal Acts which portray women giving up riches and sexual activity to follow the Apostles. ...
- Tertullian (A.D. 160-230) says that the Acts of Paul and Thecla were forged by a presbyter of Asia, who "confessed that he did it out of respect for Paul," ...


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