Lydia was a successful businesswoman — a seller of purple, the luxury dye — who worshipped God in Philippi. When Paul preached by the riverside, whose heart the Lord opened, and she believed, becoming the first recorded Christian convert in Europe. She was baptized with her household and opened her home to the missionaries.
Her name comes from the region of Lydia. She models an open heart, ready faith, and generous hospitality — the church at Philippi may well have begun in her house.
Lydia is a graceful, popular classic — vintage and lovely, warmly enduring.
Variants & nicknames
Lidia, Lyddie
Lydia in the Bible
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.