Lydia is named in Acts:
Acts 16:11. And when we set sail from Troas we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and to Neapolis the next day 12. and from there into Philippi, which is a leading city of that part of Macedonia, a colony of Rome. And we were staying in this city some days. 13. So on the day of Sabbaths we came outside the city gate by a river, which we thought to be a place of prayer, and having sat, we were speaking to those women who had gathered together. 14. And a certain woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth of the city of Thyatira, a worshipper of God, was listening, whose heart the Lord opened to pay close attention to those things being spoken by Paul. 15. And as she and her household were immersed, she urged, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful in the Lord, come to my home, you must stay there:” and she prevailed on us.
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