{"id":33730,"date":"2016-08-03T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33730"},"modified":"2016-08-04T07:32:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T11:32:49","slug":"st-lydia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/st-lydia\/","title":{"rendered":"St Lydia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"St<\/a>Saint Lydia Purpuraria<\/em> (1st century) is\u00a0famous for the mention in Acts 16 for her work with selling purple material (hence, her name which means purple seller), used for for expensive Roman clothing.<\/p>\n

Lydia\u00a0was born at Thyatira\u00a0(Ak-Hissar), a town in Asia\u00a0Minor. She met Paul on his second missionary journey in ca. AD50. Lydia\u00a0became Paul’s first convert at Philippi and he baptized her with her household\u00a0in the Gaggitis River –called the Angst River. Paul with his companions stayed at her home in Philippi. Thus, it is her home that becomes the first church in Europe.<\/p>\n

The Orthodox recall her memory liturgically on May 20.<\/p>\n

For most Catholics praying to Saint Lydia for her intercession would be very novel. But what she models for us is not new. In his 1995 Letter to Women<\/em>, Saint John Paul II wrote \u201cIn this vast domain of service, the Church’s two-thousand-year history, for all its historical conditioning, has truly experienced the \u2018genius of woman\u2019; from the heart of the Church there have emerged women of the highest calibre who have left an impressive and beneficial mark in history<\/strong>.\u201d Right,\u00a0Lydia’s\u00a0genius is instructive and worthy of our consideration for knowing the desires of her heart: she was a business woman, she lived the virtue of hospitality, a leader of people, and a follower of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

Let us ask Lydia to guide all women, indeed, all Christians, in their responding sacrificially to the holy desires of the heart.<\/p>\n

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Saint Lydia Purpuraria (1st century) is\u00a0famous for the mention in Acts 16 for her work with selling purple material (hence, her name which means purple seller), used for for expensive Roman clothing. Lydia\u00a0was born at Thyatira\u00a0(Ak-Hissar), a town in Asia\u00a0Minor. She met Paul on his second missionary journey in ca. AD50. Lydia\u00a0became Paul’s first convert … Continue reading St Lydia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32186,32187,32013],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33740,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33730\/revisions\/33740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}