Thea

ON ST. THEA, MARTYR.

Thea, Martyr (St.)

J. B.

[1] The Greeks venerate two saints named Thea, as is evident from the Menaea and Maximus of Cythera. The first was an Egyptian, who together with her brother Paul and her sister Valentina attained the palm of martyrdom in Palestine, as the Greeks report on July 18, but as the Roman calendar has it, on the 25th of the same month -- two Saints named Thea although Thea's name is not expressed in the latter. Of the other Thea, the Menaea record the following: On the same day, the holy Martyr Thea ends her life by the sword. this one was slain by the sword

Thea, mocking the false gods, The rulers of error slay with the sword.

Maximus of Cythera also records her on this day. Nothing further is known to us.