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"Saint Teath" redirects here. For the Cornish parish and village, see
St Teath .
Tetha (Cornish : Tedha ; Welsh : Tedda ), also known as Teath (),[1] [2] Tecla ,[3] [4] and by a variety of other names ,[5] was a 5th-century virgin and saint in Wales and Cornwall . She is associated with the parish church of St Teath in Cornwall. Baring-Gould gives her feast day as 27 October,[3] but this has been called a mistaken conflation with Saint Ia .[4] In 1878, it was held on the movable feast of Whit Tuesday .[5] Other sources place it on 1 May,[6] 6 September,[7] [8] and (mistakenly) 15 January.[7] It is no longer observed by either the Anglican [9] or Catholic church in Wales .[10]
Name and identity
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Early Latin records give the companion of Breaca and patron of St Teath the name Tecla ,[5] a form of the name Thecla borne by the first female martyr in Christianity . The Acts of Paul and Thecla was a common apocryphal work in the early church and the name was formerly relatively common.[3] The editor of the Bollandists ' mention of the saint[11] and Bartrum consider the name mistaken or fictitious,[4] but do not account for the early appearance of the name in records at St Teath itself.[5] Accounts of Breaca's journey give her the additional name Etha ,[7] which some have considered a corruption of "Itha".[12] This in turn has led to the saint becoming confused and conflated with the Irish saint Íde of Killeedy .[7]
Meanwhile, other accounts credit St Teath to a daughter of Brychan of Brycheiniog named Tedda ,[13] [14] Tethe ,[15] &c.[5]
Life
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In Cornish sources, Tetha was listed among the daughters of Brychan , king of Brycheiniog in Wales ,[5] making her the sister of numerous other saints in Wales and Cornwall . She is listed among Saint Breaca 's companions, who missionized Cornwall from Ireland around AD 460, by Leland and William of Worcester . Unlike some of her companions, she does not seem to have been martyred by Tewdwr Mawr , the hostile king of Penwith . (Note, however, that Borlase was of the opinion that the saint's name had been inserted in the list of Breaca's companions by mistake.[16] )
Legacy
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A church of 'St Tecla' is attested in St Teath as early as 1201.[5] The present Church of St Tetha[17] largely consists of 15th-century improvements to a Norman original. It is listed as a Grade I protected building .[18]
See also
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Saint Tegla , a Welsh saint with whom she is sometimes conflated
Thecla , the first female Christian martyr
References
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^ St Teath Village Website. "Facts" . 2014. Accessed 30 Nov 2014.
^ Bartrum, p. 687: "St Teath" .
^ a b c Baring-Gould, Sabine & al. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain , Vol. IV, pp. 219 ff . Chas. Clark (London), 1908. Hosted at Archive.org. Accessed 25 Nov 2014.
^ a b c d Bartrum, p. 687: "St. Tecla" .
^ a b c d e f g Orme, Nicholas. English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon , p. 119 . University of Exeter Press (Exeter), 1996.
^ Roscarrock, Nicholas. Lives of the English Saints . c. 1625 .
^ a b c d Bartrum, p. 698: "St. Tetha" .
^ Challoner, Richard. A Memorial of Ancient British Piety: Or, a British Martyrology , p. 126 . W. Needham (London), 1761.
^ The Church in Wales. "The Book of Common Prayer for Use in the Church in Wales: The New Calendar and the Collects ". 2003. Accessed 18 Nov 2014.
^ The Catholic Church in England and Wales. "Liturgy Office: November 2015 ". Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, 2014. Accessed 18 Nov 2014.
^ Acta Sanctorum , Vol. LX, Octobris , Vol. XII, "De SS. Ia et Breaca Virginibus Eorumque Comitibus Uni, Sinino, Elwino, Maruano, Germocho,Crewenna, Helena, Thecla seu Etha, Gwithian et Gwinnear seu Wymero, in Cornubia Britannica", pp. 293 ff . Imprimerie Polleunis, Ceuterick, & Lefébure (Brussels), 1886. (in Latin) Cited in Bartrum.[4]
^ Chope, R. Pearse (ed.). The Devonian Year Book for the Year 1916 , pp. 90 f. London Devonian Assoc. (London), 1916.
^ Doble, G.H. (trans.). The Life of Saint Nectan . 1941, reprinted at Bideford, 1964.
^ Bartrum, Peter C. A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000 , p. 687: "St. Tedda" . National Library of Wales, 1993.
^ Hunt, Robert. Popular Romances of the West of England: The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall , 3d ed.: "Saint Keyne" . Chatto & Windus (London), 1903. Accessed 18 Nov 2014.
^ Borlase, William Copeland. "The President's Address" in the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall , Vol. VI, No. XX, p. 41 . 31 May 1878, reprinted Lake & Lake (Truro), 1881.
^ St Teath Village Website. "Parish Church" . 2012.
^ English Heritage. "Church of St Tetha" . 2014. Accessed 30 Nov 2014.
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