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Thecla

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Thec´la
n.1.Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; - called also hairstreak, and elfin.


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L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, which devoted two pages to the discovery, said that the oval portrait, dated to the 4th century, had been found in the catacombs of St Thecla, not far from the Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls, where the apostle is buried.
Thecla Hartman fell in love on the street - she first saw the man who would become her husband on a stroll.
This duly resembles the episode in the Acts of Paul and Thecla 7-9, where the young Thecla listens to Paul's preaching through a window6.
 
 
 
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