Tekla wa Ikonio

Tekla wa Ikonio (kwa Kigiriki: Θέκλα, Thékla) alikuwa mwanamke wa mji huo wa Likaonia (leo nchini Uturuki) katika karne ya 1 BK.

Mt. Tekla kati ya wanyamapori, kwenye altare ya kanisa kuu la Tarragona, Hispania (karne XII).

Inasemekana alipata kuwa mfuasi wa Mtume Paulo, inavyosimuliwa na kitabu cha karne ya 2 Matendo ya Paulo na Tekla (180 hivi).

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki, Waorthodoksi, Waorthodoksi wa Mashariki na Waanglikana kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe tofautitofauti: 23 Septemba, 24 Septemba au 3 Oktoba.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Marejeo

• Barrier, J. W., J. N. Bremmer, T. Niklas, A. Puig I Tàrrech. 2016. Thecla: Paul's disciple and saint in the East and the West. Bristol, CN: Peeters.
• Eliott, J.K., "The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation," Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• MacDonald, D.R., "The Legend and the Apostle: The Battle for Paul in Story and Canon," Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983.
• Kirsch, J.P., Catholic Encyclopedia: "Sts. Thecla", Volume XIV, New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.
• Ehrman, Bart D., "Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew," Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-518249-1.
• Davis, Stephen J. The Cult Of Saint Thecla. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Print.
• Osiek, Carolyn. 'The Cult Of Thecla: A Tradition Of Women's Piety In Late Antiquity (Review)'. Journal of Early Christian Studies 11.3 (2003): 422-424. Web.

Viungo vya nje

Wikimedia Commons ina media kuhusu:

Tekla wa Ikonio

• Acts of Paul and Thecla: translated probably by Jeremiah Jones, (1693–1724)
• Early Christian Writings:`Acts of Paul and Thecla (e-text) ed. M.R. James, 1924.
• Nancy A. Carter, "The Acts of Thecla: a Pauline tradition linked to women"
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Sts. Thecla
• St. Thecla Catholic Church & School, Chicago, IL

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