08 — Veneration

The living veneration of St. Thecla: her feast on September 24, the conflicting relic and burial traditions (Maaloula, Tarragona, and the Seleucia “living disappearance”), and her iconography.

Files

File	Description
feast-and-relics.md	The feast (September 24 Orthodox; September 23 in the older Roman calendar); the three irreconcilable ending/relic traditions — Seleucia (vanished alive), Maaloula in Syria (died and buried), Tarragona in Spain (the arm-relic) — reported side by side per METHODOLOGY §4.
iconography.md	The iconography of Thecla: the window scene, the beasts, the lioness, the cross-dressed traveler; the pilgrim flasks; East and West.

See Also

• The Life and Miracles — the “living disappearance” that sets up the relic conflict
• What Can Be Known — the historicity behind the feast and the 1969 Roman removal
• Orthodoxy Guide: Women in Orthodoxy — the broader veneration of women saints