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St. Thecla of Kitzingen

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Feastday: October 15
Death: 790

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Benedictine abbess, originally a nun at Wimborne Abbey, England, under St. Tetta. She was sent to Germany with other nuns under St. Lioba to give aid to the missionary cause then being undertaken by St. Boniface. Named first abbess of Ochsenfurt by Boniface, she later took up the abbacy of Kitzingen, on the Main, Germany, ruling over the nuns there for many years. In some lists she is called Heilga.

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