Venerable
Thecla of Kitzingen
Abbess of Ochsenfurt and Kitzingen
Anglo-Saxon nun and abbess of Ochsenfurt and Kitzingen in Germany, who reposed around 790.
- Feast
- October 15old style October 28
- Reposed
- 7908th century
- Place
- Ochsenfurt
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Thecla of Kitzingen was an Anglo-Saxon nun at Wimborne in England who went to Germany with Saint Lioba. She was the first abbess at Ochsenfurt and then at Kitzingen on the Main. She reposed around 790. She is commemorated on 15 October, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.
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