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Name Tecusa
Gender Feminine
Usage History (Ecclesiastical)
Other Forms FormsTaecusa, Thecusa, Etecusa?
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Meaning & History
This was the name of a 3rd-century Christian martyr from Ancyra, the capital of the Roman province of Galatia. She was the eldest of seven holy virgins who were drowned in a lake during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian. The following night she appeared to her nephew, Saint Theodotus, in a dream.