Thecla overheard the Apostle Paul perchance. She heard him give his sermons in the house of Onesiphorus (2 Timothy 1:16) in a series of beatitudes.
Thecla, a young noble virgin woman, listened to Paul's "discourse on virginity" from her window in an adjacent house. She listened enraptured, without moving for days. Thecla's mother, Theocleia, and her fiancé, Thamyris (an influential rich man), became concerned that Thecla would follow Paul's teaching "that one must fear only one God and live in chastity" from sexual union.
Thecla did just that and God honoured her with a long miraculous life culminating in a profound supernatural departure from the world.
Read about the amazing miracles which followed the young woman Thecla's conversion to Jesus and the pure life she endeavoured to live with the help of God, as recorded in an early Church manuscript called 'The Acts of Paul & Thecla'.
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