Catholic birthdays. Catholic saints (name day). By months according to the holy calendar

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

ATTENTION

In the calendar, special, Church Slavonic forms of names are used, so do not be surprised if, when searching for saints for the name Julian, you will be sent to St. Julian.

Rice. P.2. Saints

Go to tab Saints you can also click on the tab name in the upper part of the window, but the selected name will not match the days of saints.

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

ATTENTION

Many modern Russian names are slightly different in spelling from the accepted ones. Orthodox Church names. For example, there are no Ivanovs in the calendar, but there are Johns. Before switching to the Saints tab, check with 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 for John in the search box).

There is a switch below the search box. Choose a denomination, with which you can select Catholic or Orthodox saints(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 date of birth to find the name day.

Rice. P.3. The subsection "Select a denomination" helps to switch to the corresponding calendars

In the holy calendar, you can often find several saints with the same name. In addition, the saint can be venerated several days a year. It can be very tiring to celebrate all the namesake saints on all due days, so it is customary for the name day (or angel's day) to choose one of the days, but not any one. According to church ideas, your name day will be the first day from the birthday (they are baptized) dedicated to your saint.

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

So, in the search box, enter the name.

To set the day when Yuliana should celebrate her name day according to the Orthodox calendar, select the radio button Choose a denomination into position Orthodox. Click the button in the lower left corner of the screen Name day search.

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, press the button again Name day search. In the results window you will receive July 5th.

Now set the calendar to December 14th and press the button Name day search. You will receive 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 Choose a denomination into position Catholic. Catholic Juliana should celebrate her name day on February 16, since this is the nearest date from both July 1 and December 14. There are two more Julians in the Catholic calendar, but they are further - April 5 and June 19.

In the old days, Juliania (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 on the coming days. For boys - for three days, for girls - for eight, since there are much fewer female names in the calendar.

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

Rice. P.4. Choosing a name from the calendar

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

button Calendar of Saints you can also use it to find out which saints' name days are celebrated on a particular day.

Name day (or namesake day) is a calendar day assigned to one or more names. It has religious background: among Orthodox and Catholics who observe church and household rites. Name days are celebrated on the day of memory of the saint, in whose honor the person was named. And this saint becomes a guardian angel, i.e. man's heavenly intercessor.

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

Many guests were always invited to name days in Russia and they tried to make a rich table. Be sure to bake a big pie with porridge. “It’s not a carnival without a pancake, it’s not a name day without a pie” - they said among the people. next year. And the more porridge that wakes up on the birthday boy, the better. In addition, so that luck does not leave the birthday man, it was necessary to break something on the name day. Also, according to custom, the birthday man who is presented on this day, at the end of the feast, he himself had to give gifts to the guests in gratitude for the fact that they came to congratulate him.

The popular name for the name day is the day of the angel (the patron saint of heaven is often called the "angel"), although the name day and the day of the angel (guardian angel) are different concepts. Angel Day is a conditional name that has nothing to do with the guardian angel of a person, whose day is celebrated on the days of all Heavenly forces.

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

Catholic calendar of names, like the Orthodox one, was created in the traditions of veneration of 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 Catholic calendar there are not many Greek names (Athenodorus, Dositheus, Galaktion), and in the Orthodox you will not find Wilhelm, Edgar and Amalia. In addition to the names mentioned in the Bible, canon include names of Latin and Germanic origin. Some Catholic names have Russian counterparts, for example, Lara - Lawrence, Angelica - Angelina, Zhanna - Joanna. Memorial Day of many saints in both calendars are celebrated on the same day. You just need to remember that in the Catholic Church, the chronology is kept according to the Gregorian calendar (new style), and in the Orthodox Church, according to the Julian (old style).

Peculiarities

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

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

Often, parents first give a name to 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 the child a name. And it is not at all necessary that the day of veneration of this saint be on the same dates as the birthday of the child is celebrated, as the abbots of the Catholic parish say.

The fact is that the day of memory 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 marked - when they passed into a new, eternal life.

Attention! Catholic calendars practically do not coincide with those in the Orthodox calendar.

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

Relationships between Catholics heavenly patrons closer and more reverent than that of representatives Orthodox faith. For Orthodox Christians, the saint after whom he is named is an abstract concept. And a Catholic communicates not only with the 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 counterparts, for example, Angelica - Angelina, Jack - Eugene, Zhanna - Joanna;
• the meaning of the name and character of the saint;
• compatibility of the name with the surname and patronymic.

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

Naming according to the holy calendar by months

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 - a martyr put on trial for faith in Christ;
• Wilhelm - Saint William of Zhelonsky;
• Gerard - martyr Gerard of Hungary;
• Herman - venerable Spanish priest;
• Donan, Bishop of Arezzo;
• Ezekiel - Christian prophet;
• Marcel - French priest;
• Pankarty - an early Christian martyr;
• Plato is a 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 - an apostle from the city of Colosse;
• Zinovy ​​- Bishop of the Aegean;
• Solomon - prophet, king of Israel;
• Trofim is a disciple of the Apostle Paul;
• Leonty - Patriarch of Jerusalem;
• Macarius is a reverend hermit.

July

Name days of such saints are celebrated in July:

August

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

• Augustine the Blessed - a hermit monk;
• John is a Christian prophet;
• Conrad - British priest;
• Marian - a holy martyr from Rome;
• Hippolytus - early Christian Roman writer, theologian;
• Karl - Bishop of the Milanese Church;
• Felix - holy British apostle;
• Aristarchus - Bishop of Apamea;
• Ustin - an apologist killed for the Christian faith;
• 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 is an English monk who defended the interests of the Catholic Church;
• Gregory - Roman educator-theologian;
• Rustik - early Christian great martyr, presbyter;
• Maxim the Monk Confessor;
• Nicephorus Syrian monk, holy martyr;
• Renat is an Italian Catholic bishop.

November

In November, the memory of such saints is honored:

December

In December, the name day of such Catholic saints is celebrated:

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

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