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The first refers to her place of birth, which is a city in the ancient region of Lydia (modern-day Akhisar, Turkey). The second comes from the Latin word for purple and relates to her connection with purple dye. Philippi (modern-day Macedonia (Greece)) was the city in which Lydia was living when she met St. Paul and his companions. All these ...
Saint Lydia may refer to: Lydia of Thyatira, first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe; See Philetus (martyr), for Lydia, 2nd-century Illyrian Christian martyr
Philetus was supposedly "...a senator who resided in the province of Illyria and was put to death during the persecution under Emperor Hadrian]..." [ 1 ] According to the Roman Martyrology , they were martyred in Illyria during the reign of Hadrian .
Lydia remained a satrapy after Persia's conquest by the Macedonian king Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon. When Alexander's empire ended after his death, Lydia was possessed by the major Asian diadoch dynasty, the Seleucids, and when it was unable to maintain its territory in Asia Minor, Lydia was acquired by the Attalid dynasty of Pergamum.
The first recorded parade on the Catholic Feast Day of St. Patrick was held on March 17, 1601, in a Spanish colony in modern-day St. Augustine, Florida. More than a century later, ...
The date of birth of Jesus of Nazareth is not stated in the gospels or in any secular text, but most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 BC and 4 BC. [1] Two main methods have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus: one based on the accounts of his birth in the gospels with reference to King Herod's reign, and another based on subtracting his stated age of "about 30 years ...
16. What year did St. Patrick’s Day go from being a strictly holy day for Catholics to an official Irish holiday? Answer: 1903 17. Saint Patrick wasn't actually Irish like many think.
Lee Daniels is mourning the death of his younger sister Lydia Ruth Daniels-Rooks. "As the fires are burning, so is my heart. My younger sister Lydia has passed,” the Oscar-nominated director, 65 ...