Question

After this woman is condemned to the arena, she befriends a lioness who protects her, then baptizes herself in a vat which is for some reason filled with man-eating seals. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this young woman from Iconium who converts to Christianity after listening to a preacher discuss the importance of virginity. She co-names an apocryphal book of “acts” with that apostle.
ANSWER: Thecla
[10e] Thecla is converted by this man, who became a Christian himself after being blinded by heavenly light on the road to Damascus.
ANSWER: Paul [or Saint Paul; or Saul of Tarsus]
[10m] In his treatise “On Baptism,” this Christian apologist from Carthage called the Acts of Paul and Thecla a forgery. He criticized Christians who drew on Greek philosophy by asking “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”
ANSWER: Tertullian [or Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus]
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