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Today (15. October) is the feast day of:
Thecla of Kitzingen (d. ca. 790). T. was an Englishwoman who joined her relative St. Leoba in St. Boniface's missionary enterprise in Germany and whose recollections, passed down to a monk in Germany, became part of Rudolf of Fulda's source material for his Vita of L. Like Leoba, she may previously have been a nun at Wimborne (today's Wimborne Minster in Dorset). We first hear of her at today's Tauberbischofsheim in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, where Leoba was abbess at a monastery that functioned as a training center for English missionaries. Later she went on to be abbess of the relatively nearby women's monasteries at Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt in today's Unterfranken in Bavaria. She is one of the three women addressees of a not very informative letter from Boniface (_Ep._ 67), encouraging them and asking for their prayers.
T. died at Kitzingen. Her relics were profaned and scattered during the Peasants' War of 1524-25.
After centuries of occupation and rebuilding, followed by heavy bombing in 1943, there's not much left of medieval Kitzingen. Ochsenfurt, on the other hand, though it never became a university town as did its namesake in England (and T. was of course never in orders, so we can't call her a clerk of Oxenford), does have some surviving later medieval buildings of interest. Herewith a few views of its Pfarrkirche St. Andreas (consecrated in 1288; statues from 1340 onward):
Exterior:
http://www.st-andreas-ochsenfurt.de/_borders/top.ht1.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1890/2294/1600/35.jpg
http://hvanilla.sakura.ne.jp/ochsenfurt/image/ochsenurt20.jpg
Interior:
http://hvanilla.sakura.ne.jp/ochsenfurt/image/ochsenurt5.jpg
http://hvanilla.sakura.ne.jp/ochsenfurt/image/ochsenurt11.jpg
http://hvanilla.sakura.ne.jp/ochsenfurt/image/ochsenurt13.jpg
http://hvanilla.sakura.ne.jp/ochsenfurt/image/ochsenurt10.jpg
Statue of St. Nicholas by Tilman Riemenschneider (ca. 1460-1531):
http://hvanilla.sakura.ne.jp/ochsenfurt/image/ochsenurt21.jpg
http://hvanilla.sakura.ne.jp/ochsenfurt/image/ochsenurt22.jpg
And three views of the nearby Michaelskapelle (1400):
http://tinyurl.com/yqecbh
http://hvanilla.sakura.ne.jp/ochsenfurt/image/ochsenurt3.jpg
http://hvanilla.sakura.ne.jp/ochsenfurt/image/ochsenurt4.jpg
Wimborne Minster is twinned with Ochsenfurt. Herewith some views of Wimborne Minster church (chiefly twelfth-century):
Exterior:
http://www.imagesofdorset.org.uk/Dorset/015/01.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2pfssf
http://www.imagesofdorset.org.uk/Dorset/015/03.htm
http://www.imagesofdorset.org.uk/Dorset/015/04.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2hnlzw
Two old-postcard views of the nave:
http://www.halftimescores.co.uk/images/pc01b/fs1977.jpg
http://www.halftimescores.co.uk/images/pc06a/fs6097.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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