Irina's name day according to the Catholic calendar. Choose a name for boys or girls according to the Catholic church calendar - names of saints of the Catholic Church according to the calendar

29.03.2023

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The Catholic tradition of naming is based on the choice of names of saints, enshrined in church calendars. The calendars of Catholics and Orthodox Christians coincide only partly- if the saints were canonized before the beginning of the eleventh century - before the Great Schism of the Churches. Subsequently, the canonization of saints in both branches of the Christian Church was carried out in their own way.

Names mentioned in the Bible and names of Latin and Germanic origin are considered Catholic.

Often parents first name the child, and then look for his holy protector in the calendar, check whether such a saint even exists. However, it is better to do the opposite - first choose a church intercessor, and then give a name to the child. And it is absolutely not necessary that the day of veneration of this saint be on the same dates as the child’s birthday, as the rectors of the Catholic parish claim.

The fact is that the day of remembrance of the saint, whose name is given to a Christian at baptism, is called name day. In Catholic calendars, as in Orthodox ones, the date of their death is noted - when they passed into a new, eternal life.

Attention! The Catholic calendar practically does not coincide with the calendar in the Orthodox calendar.

Catholics treat their names with great respect and name their children after saints. Therefore, when pronouncing, distortions or abbreviations of names are not allowed. However, names may sound different in different Catholic countries. At the same time, individual saints called themselves differently than is customary according to modern spelling traditions.

The relationship of Catholics to their heavenly patrons is closer and more reverent than that of representatives of the Orthodox faith. For Orthodox Christians, the saint in whose honor it is named is an abstract concept. And a Catholic communicates not only with patrons of the same name, but also with those saints who patronize certain deeds performed by a person.

When choosing, the following points are taken into account:

month and day of birth of the child;
some Catholic names have Russian analogues, for example, Angelica - Angelina, Jack - Eugene, Zhanna - Joanna;
the meaning of the name and character of the saint;
compatibility of first name with surname and patronymic.

In the Catholic Church, the calendar is marked according to the Gregorian calendar - the new style, while in the Orthodox calendar the Julian (old) style is observed.

Name giving according to calendar calendar by month

January

Male names according to the calendar in January and their meanings:

February

According to the calendar in February, the following Catholic names are chosen:

March

In March, according to the calendar, they are called by the following Catholic names::

April

The following Catholic saints are venerated in April:

Akakiy is a martyr, put on trial for his faith in Christ;
William - Saint William of Jelon;
Gerard - martyr Gerard of Hungary;
Herman - a reverend Spanish priest;
Donan - bishop of Arezzo;
Ezekiel is a Christian prophet;
Marcel - French priest;
Pankarty - early Christian martyr;
Plato - healer from Ancyra;
Richard - Saint Richard of Wales.

May

The following Catholic saints are commemorated in May::

June

In June, such saints are venerated:

Anastasius - martyr of Epirus;
Anthony of Padua, Catholic preacher;
Isidore of Seville, scientist, bishop;
Lawrence - Archdeacon of the Christian community in Rome;
Manuel the martyr from Persia;
Onesimus is an apostle from the city of Colossae;
Zinovy – Bishop of Egei;
Solomon - prophet, king of Israel;
Trofim - disciple of the Apostle Paul;
Leonty - Patriarch of Jerusalem;
Macarius is a venerable hermit.

July

The name days of such saints are celebrated in July:

August

In August, according to the calendar, Catholics are called by these names:

Augustine the Blessed - hermit monk;
John is a Christian prophet;
Conrad is a British priest;
Marian - holy martyr from Rome;
Hippolytus - early Christian Roman writer, theologian;
Charles is the bishop of the Milan church;
Felix - holy British apostle;
Aristarchus - Bishop of Apamea;
Ustin is an apologist killed for his Christian religion;
Tryphon is a holy martyr.

September

In September the memory of such saints is honored:

October

In October the memory of the following personalities is honored::

Anthony of Padua, priest;
Arthur - an English monk who defended the interests of the Catholic Church;
Gregory - Roman educational theologian;
Rusticus - early Christian martyr, presbyter;
Maxim the Reverend Confessor;
Nikephoros Syrian monk, martyr;
Renat is an Italian Catholic bishop.

November

In November the memory of such saints is honored:

December

The name days of such Catholic saints are celebrated in December:

Alan - Bishop of Kemper;
Orestes of Sebaste - martyr;
Nicholas is the patron saint of Aarhus;
Franz Jägerstätter – blessed of the Roman Church;
Gabriel - blessed archangel;
Hartmann is a member of the Order of St. Anne;
Evgraf is a holy martyr who died because of his faith in Christ;
Claudius Interamnsky - blessed warrior, Catholic, suffered for his faith;
Roger Cadwallador - Catholic blessed;
Edmund is a priest of the Berlin diocese;
Jason is a church leader in the Principality of Lithuania.

When choosing a suitable name for a boy, it is important to remember the main thing - the son will carry this name all his life. You should think carefully about all your options before making a decision. It is better to abandon rare unusual names if they do not fit well with your surname and patronymic, so that in the future this will not cause ridicule and condemnation from others.

The Catholic calendar of names, like the Orthodox one, was created in the tradition of venerating Christian saints.

However, the different historical paths of the Western and Eastern Churches determined the differences in the names. The saints, who are included in both the Catholic and Orthodox calendars, were canonized before the schism of the general Christian church in 1054.
After the 11th century, this process in Catholicism and Orthodoxy proceeded independently of each other. Therefore, in the Catholic calendar there are not many Greek names (Athinodorus, Dositheus, Galaktion), and in the Orthodox calendar you will not find William, Edgar and Amalia. In addition to the names mentioned in the Bible, the Catholic calendar includes names of Latin and Germanic origin. Some Catholic names have Russian analogues, for example, Lara - Lavrentiy, Angelika - Angelina, Zhanna - Joanna. The feast days of many saints in both calendars are celebrated on the same day. You just need to remember that in the Catholic Church, chronology is carried out according to the Gregorian calendar (new style), and in the Orthodox Church, according to the Julian calendar (old style).

Name day (or namesake day) is a calendar day associated with one or more names. It has a religious origin: among Orthodox and Catholics who observe church and everyday rituals. Name days are celebrated on the day of remembrance of the saint in whose honor the person was named. And this saint becomes a Guardian Angel, i.e. heavenly protector of man.

In Russia before the revolution, name days were considered a more important holiday for Orthodox residents than birthdays.
It was also previously believed that naming a child with the name of a righteous man was good, but naming a child with the name of a martyr was not good. There was an opinion among the people that revealing the name before baptism was a grave sin that could lead to the death of a newborn. Before baptism, the child could be given some temporary name, for example a name. It was impossible to give a newborn the name of a deceased child, so that he would not inherit his fate. It was possible to name a deceased grandfather or grandmother after them if they were happy and lucky (it was believed that fate was inherited through a generation). If a woman had only girls, she had to give the last daughter her name so that the next one would be a boy. In order to deceive the disease that stuck to the child, it was necessary to temporarily call the boy with a female name and vice versa.

On name days in Rus' they always invited many guests and tried to create a rich table. Be sure to bake a big pie with porridge. “Without a pancake, it’s not Maslenitsa, without a pie, it’s not a name day,” people said. At the very beginning of dinner, the pie was broken over the head of the birthday boy, sprinkling him with porridge. This was supposed to signify prosperity for the whole next year. And the more porridge spilled on the birthday boy, the better. In addition, so that luck would not leave the birthday person, something was required to be broken on the name day. Also, according to custom, the birthday person who was given gifts on this day, at the end of the feast, himself had to give gifts to the guests in gratitude for coming to congratulate his.

The popular name for name day is angel day (the heavenly patron saint is often called “angel”), although name day and angel day (guardian angel) are different concepts. Angel Day is a conventional name that has nothing to do with a person’s guardian angel, whose day is celebrated on the days of all Heavenly powers.

Below are the Saints - a list of saints revered by the church. There are many saints of the same name in the Saints, therefore, when determining the name day, the saint whose memory most closely follows the person’s date of birth is selected. If a person’s name is not in the Saints, then the person is baptized with the name closest in sound: for example: Dina -

In the lower right part of the program window there is a Saints button. If you select a name and click this button, the program will automatically transfer you to the Saints tab (Fig. A.2) and show all the days of saints with this name. If the name you select does not have a corresponding saint, the button will be inactive.

ATTENTION

The calendar uses special, Church Slavonic forms of names, so do not be surprised if, when searching for saints under the name Julian, you are referred to Saint Julian.

Rice. P.2. Saints

Go to tab Saints You can also click on the tab name at the top of the window, but the selected name will not match the saints' days.

On the tab Saints In the upper left corner there is a search box where you can enter a specific name.

ATTENTION

Many modern Russian names are somewhat different in spelling from the names accepted by the Orthodox Church. For example, in the calendar there are no Ivans, but there are Johns. Before going to the Saints tab, check the Dictionary of Names, or go to it from the Dictionary of Names, correcting the name you are interested in after the transition (that is, correcting Ivan to John in the search window).

There is a switch under the search box Select denomination, with which you can choose Catholic or Orthodox calendars (Fig. A.3). To do this, the switch is set to the appropriate position.

Below the switch is a calendar where you can set a specific birth date to find your name day.

Rice. P.3. The “Select a denomination” subsection helps you switch to the corresponding calendar

In the calendar, you can often find several saints with the same name. In addition, the saint may be venerated several days a year. Celebrating all the namesake saints on all the appropriate days can be very tiring, so it is customary to choose one of the days for name day (or angel day), but not just any one. According to church beliefs, your name day will be the first day from your birthday (or baptism) dedicated to your saint.

For example, there is a girl named Juliana, who was born on July 1st and baptized on December 14th. Strictly speaking, name days should be counted from baptism, but not everyone now knows the day on which they were baptized. Thus, for Juliana we will find two name days according to the Orthodox or Catholic calendar, depending on her faith.

So, in the search box, enter the name.

To set the day when Juliana should celebrate her name day according to the Orthodox calendar, select the switch Select denomination to position Orthodox. In the lower left corner of the screen, click the button Search for name day.

What happens? Unfortunately, nothing because you misspelled the name. It was said above that you need to write not Yuliono, A Juliana!

After correcting the name, click the button again Search for name day. You will receive the results window on July 5th.

Now set your calendar to December 14th and click the button Search for name day. You will receive it on December 17th.

What if Juliana is a Catholic? First of all, in the search box you need to enter Yuliono, and not the Church Slavonic form of this name.

Set the switch Select denomination to position Catholic. Juliana the Catholic should celebrate her name day on February 16, since this is the closest date to both July 1 and December 14. There are two more Julians in the Catholic calendar, but they are further away - April 5 and June 19.

In the old days, Juliana (or, in Russian, Ulyana) would not have had a double name day, because children were baptized almost immediately after birth. Parents were asked to look at the calendar and select names from a list of saints whose birthdays fell in the coming days. For boys - three days, for girls - eight, since there are much fewer women's names in the calendar.

If you want to find, according to these ancient rules, a name for a girl born on July 1, you should indicate the date on the calendar and click the button Saint calendar(Fig. A.4). The program will show you eight days - from July 1 to July 8. Mostly male names are given there, but there are also female ones.

Rice. P.4. Selecting a name by calendar

For a boy, we would have to limit ourselves to three days, and the list would still be longer.

Button Saint calendar you can also use it to find out which saints' name days are celebrated on a particular day.

Features: how to choose for girls, what is taken into account?

Saint's Day is the anniversary of the death of a canonized person., who did a lot for peace and religion in his time. This is the day on which he passed into eternal life. This day is considered the name day of the saint. Catholic Christians are very zealous about names, not allowing their distortions and abbreviations, so the names have reached our times in their original, unchanged state.

For everyday use, such nicknames are of course abbreviated, for example, this is how Joanna turned into Zhanna. Among Catholics, it is considered wrong to first choose a name for a girl, and only then compare it with the calendar and look for saints with a similar name.

Important! For a child, it is more important to choose a patron saint and intercessor to whom the heart lies, because... It is not necessary to give a name exactly every day; a gap of 8 days is considered acceptable.

By month according to the holy calendar

The calendar of Christian saints is very helpful when choosing a name for a newborn. Below is a selection by month and with a short description of the life and accomplishments of each of these people.