Santa Tekla
"Tekla di antara hewan-hewan buas", altar katedral Tarragona, Spanyol (abad ke-12)
Perawan dan Martir
Lahir	30 Masehi Konya, Turki (Likaonia)
Meninggal	Abad ke-1 Masehi
Dihormati di	Gereja Ortodoks Oriental Gereja Katolik Roma Gereja Ortodoks Timur Gereja Episkopal
Pesta	23 September (Gereja Katolik Roma, Gereja Episkopal) 24 September (Gereja Ortodoks Timur) 3 Oktober (Gereja Ortodoks Koptik)

Tekla (bahasa Yunani Kuno: Θέκλαcode: grc is deprecated , Thékla) adalah orang kudus gereja perdana, dan pengikut Rasul Paulus. Catatan terawal dari kehidupannya berasal dari apokrifa kuno Kisah Paulus dan Tekla.

Daftar pustaka

• 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.

Referensi

Pranala luar

Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Saint Thecla.

• 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