Today's saint, St. Lydia Purpuraria, was the first Christian convert in Europe, a businesswoman who dealt in luxury goods. She is the patron saint of cloth dyers. Saint Lydia was born during the first century in Thyatira, a town famous for its dye works in Asia Minor, famous for its dye works, (hence, her name which means purple seller). She was a seller of purple dye and was St. Paul's first convert at Philippi. The following is from the Acts of the Apostles: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. ~Acts 16:14-15 She was baptized with her household. Thereafter, Paul made his home with her while in Philippi. Lydia was a woman of hospital...
Jean, you're amazing. You have such good stuff on your blog. A friend of mine, Deanna, who suffers from ALS and is working on a blog about suffering said that maybe a year ago you had posted a nice set of saint quotations about suffering. She asked me to contact you because we don't see a search button on your blog. She would like to include those quotations in her blog. Do you remember when you posted them? I see your site was designed by Alexa. She added a search button on mine. God bless.
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ReplyDeleteI will check on this for you. I think the quotes may be from my first book.