Tigre

Saint Tigre (Tigris or Tygris), better known as Thecla, called of Maurienne or of Valloire, was, according to tradition, a hermit of Savoy, most likely from Valloire, who is said to have lived in the 6th century. She is venerated locally for having brought the relics of Saint John the Baptist into the valley. She is remembered on 25 June.

The legend says that she brought from the East three fingers of Saint John the Baptist. The presence of these relics in the town of Saint-⁠Jean-⁠de-⁠Maurienne moved the Burgundian king Guntram to found the bishopric there, around 575. Tradition tells that three Irish monks (in another version, Scottish), returning from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, stopped in a village of Maurienne called Volascis and were given hospitality by two sisters of noble birth, Tygris and Pigmenia. Their accounts of the miracles of the relics of Saint John made Thecla wish to make the pilgrimage herself. She set out, accompanied by a maidservant, by way of Milan and Rome to the port of Ostia, to reach Egypt.

The only document from that time is Gregory of Tours' On the Glory of the Martyrs (written after 574): a woman from Maurienne asked for relics of the Forerunner and swore not to leave without them, praying every day at the tomb.