[2] Over a century later, Calistrat Hogaș described the hermit's environment: Theodora initially lived in a cottage in a rocky part of Sihla, left to her by an elderly monk.

Oral tradition recounts that nuns fleeing from foreign invasions came across the saint's cottage, who relinquished it to move into a cave, even more remote than her initial abode.

The Romanian writer Calistrat Hogaș wrote about her in his book "Pe drumuri de munte"("On mountain paths"): Frumoasa Sfânta Teodora, legendara anahoretă a locurilor acestora, se înfățișa închipuirii mele ca o a doua Marie din Egipt, cu viața bântuită de aceleași nenorociri, tot ca și ea.

Sfânta Teodora se lepădase, poate, de plăcerile îmbătătoare ale lumii acesteia, mulțumindu-se, în cele din urmă, cu crăpatura umedă a unei stânci, în locul palatelor aurite unde luxul și desfrâul domneau cu răsfățare...Beautiful St. Teodora, the anchorite legend of these places, appeared in my imagination as a second Mary of Egypt, her life haunted by the same misfortunes.

St. Teodora had also cast off, perhaps, the intoxicating pleasures of the world, contenting herself, at last, with the damp crevice of a rock, instead of the gilded palaces where luxury and indulgence reigned...The Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church proclaimed the canonization of St. Theodora of Sihla on 20 June 1992, establishing her commemoration on 7 August.