to St. Takla or Taqla. One of the oldest is the St. Taqla Church in Masqa, Matn District, built in 1695. The church boasts an 1870 painting of Thecla by the Italian artist Vincento Lampodico. In Syria, there is a Greek Orthodox church of St. Thecla in Darayya. In 1849, some people found a cave in Latakia which later became St. Taqla's Shrine. In the United States there are three Roman Catholic parishes named for Saint Thecla: in Clinton, Michigan; in Pembroke, Massachusetts; and in Chicago, Illinois. Several cities and towns are named for her: Santa Tecla, formerly Nuevo San Salvador, in La Libertad, El Salvador Sainte-Thècle, Quebec, Canada The hamlet of Sainte-Thècle in the commune of Peillon, Alpes-Maritimes, France Santa Tecla, a quarter (frazione) of Acireale, Italy Santa Tecla de Basto, a quarter (freguesia) of Celorico de Basto, Portugal The neighbourhood of Leipzig Thekla in Leipzig, Germany Deir Taqla (Monastery of Thecla), South Lebanon See also Aya Tekla Church, an ancient church in Mersin Province, Turkey. Leucius Charinus Santa Tecla, El Salvador Santa Tecla Festival Sainte-Thècle, Quebec, in Canada List of Christian women of the patristic age References Bibliography Barrier, J. W., J. N. Bremmer, T. Niklas, A. Puig I Tàrrech. 2016. Thecla: Paul's disciple and saint in the East and the West. Bristol, CN: Peeters. Eliott, J. K., The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. MacDonald, D. R., The Legend and the Apostle: The Battle for Paul in Story and Canon, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983. Kirsch, J. P., Catholic Encyclopedia: "Sts. Thecla", Volume XIV, New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. Ehrman, Bart D., Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Oxford University Press, 2005, . Davis, Stephen J. The Cult of Saint Thecla. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Print. Osiek, Carolyn. 'The Cult of Thecla: a Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity (Review)'. Journal of Early Christian Studies; 11.3 (2003): 422–424. Web. External links Acts of Paul and Thecla: translated probably by Jeremiah Jones, (1693–1724) Early Christian Writings: Acts of Paul and Thecla (e-text) ed. M.R. James, 1924. Nancy A. Carter, "The Acts of Thecla: a Pauline tradition linked to women" Catholic Encyclopedia: Sts. Thecla St. Thecla Catholic Church & School, Chicago,