Thecla

But when we get to the Christian period, that same effect, the radiant quality gets appropriated by Christianity.

So now you have bracelets, as you do here, of the Virgin Mary or of St. Thecla.

And Horace is now associated increasingly with the powerful allure of holy people, right? And their ability to have a positive effect on people, right? Through the same sort of strategies and effects.

And it's also a way for people who wanted to adorn their bodies to do so in a way that would be acceptable within Christianity, because it's all about attesting to the glory of these saintly and holy figures rather than seductive properties of someone like Aphrodite.

In one instance, there's like an early Byzantine wall painting that has the Holy Writer.

There's iconography that's appearing in multiple media and a variety of different contexts.

And this is an instance where we have just a gold ring that has a saint on one side, Saint Thecla.

It's a rotating ring on a swivel.

She then returned to Antioch and pursued her westward journey through Cilicia till she came to Tarsus.

Here she made another detour by way of Pompeiopolis or Soli and Corychus, both on the seacoast, in order to pay a special visit to the tomb of St. Thecla in Isuria, where she met to her great delight her dear friend Marthana, whom she had known in Jerusalem, see note on p. 29.

Coming back to Tarsus she made her way without further delay by Mopsocrin, which she calls Mansocrinae, and under Mount Taurus, through Cappadocia, Galatia, and Bithynia, until she arrived at Chalcedon and stopped there for the famous shrine of St. Euphemia, and finally arrived at Constantinople.

There she visited the Church of the Apostles, p. 44, and many other of the martyria with which the city abounded, and still indefatigable tells her beloved sisters that while she is preparing this narrative for them there, and also, it seems, drawing up her account of the services and rites which she had witnessed at Jerusalem, she will not actually leave her home till she has crossed into Asia once again and visited the martyrium of St. John at Ephesus.

Introduction.

The Lives of the Saints.

Besides these frequent references to the Bible lessons which describe the places she visited and the actions of holy men which are there connected with them, Etheria on page forty-three mentions in set terms the acts of St. Thecla as having been read by her or to her when she was at Seleucia.

Her story, which is closely connected with that of St. Paul, is referred to by Tertullian De Bapt one hundred seventeen, about A.D. two hundred, as well as by Hilary of Poitiers and Jerome in the fourth century.

Amen.

Thecla from her torments.

Amen.

So to show Thy power, rescue this Thy servant in his evil hour.

If you watched that segment and you thought, Mercedes was a hill.

By the time that segment was over, you already knew Thecla was the ultimate hill here.

Because she went in there and she said, you know what I can't stand? When a bee who thinks she ain't a bee talking about the other bees or something close to that nature.

I was like, all right, you got it, Thecla.

You got it.

So they're going to come down the line.

nor would any one have known from her manner i have been told that this was not a daily occurrence the annual occasion once passed she withdrew again into her seclusion and except for a very few friends was as invisible to the world as if she dwelt in the nunnery For myself, although, I had corresponded with her for many years.

I saw her but twice, face to face, and brought away the impression of something as unique and remote as Undyne, or Mignon, or Thecla.

This selection from her poems is published to meet the desire of personal friends, and especially of her surviving sister.

It is believed that the thoughtful reader will find in these pages a quality more suggestive of the poetry of William Blake than of anything to be elsewhere found.

When the due time came for her pangs to be ended by delivery, she fell asleep and seemed to be carrying in her hands the that which was still in her womb.

And some one in form and raiment more splendid than a human being appeared, and addressed the child she was carrying by the name of Thecla, that Thecla, I mean, who is so famous among the virgins.

After doing this and testifying to it three times, he departed from her sight and gave her easy delivery, so that at that moment she awoke from sleep and saw her dream realized.

Now this name was used only in secret, but it seems to me that the apparition spoke not so much to guide the mother to a right choice of name, as to forecast the life of the young child, and to indicate by the name that she would follow her namesake's mode of life.

But yeah, I mean, I think...

Same thing with, like, Thecla.

Like, she kind of held up the women's division all year, and she was in a box waving at the crowd.

So, I mean, like you said, I think, obviously, I think if you really want to solidify Ospreay, him, like, basically beating Omega, who's, like, the old version.