Lydda (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Siméon Vailhé · 1913
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Description
Lydda is a titular see of Palestina Prima in the Jerusalem patriarchate, first called Lod and founded by Samad of Benjamin. Its people went captive to Babylon and returned. Syrian kings gave the town to the Maccabees until Pompey came to Judea, after which Caesar, Cassius, and Antony in turn held, sold, and freed its folk.
Christians lived here from the first, and Peter cured the paralytic Aeneas on a visit, recorded in Acts. A council in December 415 absolved Pelagius while condemning his errors, and the town took the name Georgiopolis for St. George, said its native son, whose tomb church Crusaders rebuilt. Today 6,800 live there, mostly Muslims and schismatic Greeks, with a small Catholic parish nearby at Ramleh.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Siméon Vailhé |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |