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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

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.

Commemorated the same day October 15