Holy Baptistery of Saint Lydia of Philippi

Don’t want to be rude

I am not Catholic. Therefore, placing icons and marble fixtures at this historic biblical site ruins it for me. Respectfully, it probably enhances it for others… but not me. I’d rather sit on a wood b...

Don’t want to be rude

I am not Catholic. Therefore, placing icons and marble fixtures at this historic biblical site ruins it for me. Respectfully, it probably enhances it for others… but not me. I’d rather sit on a wood b...

A place of pilgrimage

History literally at your feet. Here is a wonderfully ornate baptistry, recently built with superb mosaics and glorious pictures. Just by it is the very river where St. Paul baptised the first Christi...

A place of pilgrimage

History literally at your feet. Here is a wonderfully ornate baptistry, recently built with superb mosaics and glorious pictures. Just by it is the very river where St. Paul baptised the first Christi...

It’s free, its interesting, and for any Christian a really special place to visit

You can sit by the river in the place that St Paul is believed to have preached and to have baptised Lydia as his first Christian in Europe. A lovely church, with paintings of St Paul’s own life and a...