Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/EW/211

Tecla (Thecla)

Gender
Female
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
? - 790
Description
Benedictine nun and abbess. Sent from Wimborne, where she was a nun, to assist the missionary work of St Boniface in Germany. She eventually became abbess of Ochsenfurt and then Kitzingen (Bavaria). ODS, 493.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
None Abbess 100 None
non-matyr Virgin 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
10 15 yes Tecla, Abbess None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations