For hundreds of years Thecla of Iconium has been a figure at the intersection of tradition and memory. The first account related to her appeared in the Acts of Paul and Thecla, which represent the most extensive portion of the apocryphal text of the Acts of Paul. Soon, however, the stories of Thecla became a text in their own right and began to be handed down in an autonomous form, beginning to circulate in Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Latin. Her story quickly moved into the category of hagiography, and expanded to the threshold of legend, creating new and different accounts and traditions of her life and death. The purpose of my paper is to examine some aspects of the figure of Thecla, as narrated in the Acts, and compare them with the reception (and of course interpretation) of the story offered by the Life and Miracles of Thecla, a work likely redacted around the mid-5th century CE.