# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thecla
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:02:36.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thecla"
name: "Thecla"
slug: "thecla"
description: "An early Christian convert whose story survives only in apocrypha — a saint venerated for centuries despite existing nowhere in the canonical record, her life known entirely through texts the church itself called non-authoritative."
tagline: "1st-century saint"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/0924Thecla.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "100"
deathDate: "100"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.8
  momentum:             2.34
  historical:           22.87299333333334
  currentAttention:     8.321428571428573
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Religious Figures"
    slug: "religious-figures"
  - name: "TV Personality"
    slug: "tv-personality"
  - name: "News Broadcasting"
    slug: "news-broadcasting"
  - name: "Religion"
    slug: "religion"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51885"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thecla"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Thecla"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekla_Iconium"
    title: "Tekla Iconium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveta_Tekla"
    title: "Sveta Tekla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecla_d'Iconi"
    title: "Tecla d'Iconi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svat%C3%A1_Tekla"
    title: "Svatá Tekla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thekla_von_Ikonium"
    title: "Thekla von Ikonium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%98%CE%AD%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B1"
    title: "Αγία Θέκλα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekla_de_Ikonio"
    title: "Tekla de Ikonio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecla_de_Iconio"
    title: "Tecla de Iconio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekla"
    title: "Tekla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A8cle_d'Iconium"
    title: "Thècle d'Iconium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trega_de_Iconio"
    title: "Trega de Iconio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%94"
    title: "טקלה הקדושה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szent_Tekla"
    title: "Szent Tekla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekla"
    title: "Tekla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecla_di_Iconio"
    title: "Tecla di Iconio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AC%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%90_%E1%83%97%E1%83%94%E1%83%99%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90"
    title: "წმინდა თეკლა"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%85%8C%ED%81%B4%EB%9D%BC_(%EC%84%B1%EC%9D%B8)"
    title: "테클라 (성인)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thecla"
    title: "Thecla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thekla_van_Iconium"
    title: "Thekla van Iconium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilage_Tekla"
    title: "Heilage Tekla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekla_av_Ikonium"
    title: "Tekla av Ikonium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tecla_d'Iconi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekla_Ikoniokoa"
    title: "Tekla Ikoniokoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "تقلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85"
    title: "تزاحم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/579150"
    title: "Thecla Boesen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Thecla appears in the ancient Acts of Paul and Thecla, an apocryphal text that places her as a follower of Paul the Apostle in the earliest days of the Christian movement. The account is the sole source for her existence. No canonical scripture mentions her. Yet the story circulated widely enough that she became venerated as a saint across multiple Christian traditions. Her profile rests entirely on a narrative the institutional church classified as outside its official canon — a figure of devotion built on a text it would not authenticate.