St. Lydia

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St. Lydia

St. Lydia

Traditional feast

August 3
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

August 3 (also listed: January 27, May 20)
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on August 3 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Modem Romah Martyrology. Not in any ancient Latin or Greek kalendars. Authority: — The Acts of the Apostles, xvi.] DIA, the first European convert of S. Paul, and afterwards his hostess during his first stay at Philippi, was probably a Jewess there at the time of the Apostle’s coming; and it was at the Jewish Sabbath worship in an oratory by the river side that the preaching of the Gospel reached her heart. Her native place was Thyatira, in the province of Asia. Thyatira was famous for its dyeing works; and Lydia was connected with this trade, either as a seller of dyes or of dyed goods. We may infer that she was a woman of considerable wealth.

Feast days

Feast: August 3

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Sources & notes

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Sources

Credits

Image: Lidia.jpg · Russisch Ikone in Gemeinfreiheit - public domain · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Russisch Ikone in Gemeinfreiheit - public domain, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.