It’s family movie night here tonight and I have a bunch of things to do beforehand, so I haven’t looked into this more, but I’d be interested if any of you have ever heard this before or know more?
“Lydia of Thyatira is mentioned in Acts xvi, and was, in apocryphal writings, identified with a daughter of Joseph of Nazareth.”
~ The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names by EG Withycombe, 201
Sancta Nomina 
Huh. No, I don’t know much on this but I advocated hard for the name Lydia with our first (who ended up being a boy anyway!)
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I love the name Lydia! I’ll def have to look into this more …
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[…] looked up the thing about Lydia being a daughter of St. Joseph — indeed a passage called “The History of Joseph the Carpenter” in one of […]
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