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Thyateira (also Thyatira; Ancient Greek: Θυάτειρα) was the name of an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, now the modern Turkish city of Akhisar ("white castle"), Manisa Province. The name is probably Lydian .
Lydia of Thyatira is most known as a "seller" or merchant of purple cloth, which is the likely reason for the Catholic Church naming her "patroness of dyers." It is unclear as to if Lydia simply dealt in the trade of purple dye or whether her business included textiles as well, [ 7 ] though all known icons of the saint depict her with some form ...
According to Revelation 1:11, on the island of Patmos in the far east of the Aegean Sea, Jesus instructed John of Patmos to "[w]rite in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."
Akhisar (Ottoman Turkish: آق حصار) is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. [2] Its area is 1,645 km 2, [3] and its population is 177,419 (2022). [1] It is the site of the ancient city of Thyatira.
Bishopric of Thyatira (Italian: Tiatira) is a titular see of the Catholic Church centered on the ancient Roman city of Thyatira in Asia Minor. The bishopric of Thyatira stretched back to very early Christianity .
His pictures were also widely reproduced by missionary societies as posters, tracts and as magazine illustrations. [3] Copping and Violet Amy Prout at the time of their engagement (c.1887) Probably the most famous of Copping's Bible illustrations was 'The Hope of the World' (1915).
During this period three of his uncles died. He also lost an aunt, her husband Chrysostomos Konialidis, and their daughter, who were burned to death when Turkish soldiers set fire to a church in Thyatira, where 500 Christians had found shelter to avoid Turkish soldiers and the burning of Smyrna. [76]
Thyatira is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Thyatirinae of the Drepanidae. It was erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. [1] Species