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Lydia, the Dealer in Purple, and the First Church in Philippi

A businesswoman from Thyatira, far from home, sat by a river in Philippi and heard Paul. What she did next put the first European church in her living room.

YESHVA EditorialOctober 6, 20266 min readEditor: Luciano Olguin

Image: Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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