Name day of Roman. Dates named after the Orthodox calendar

Name days are an important holiday for every Orthodox believer. It is similar to the birthday, because it is associated with baptism - a spiritual birth into eternal life according to the teaching of the church. When a person passes this rite, they call him by some name, necessarily in honor of this or that saint. From this moment the newly baptized has in the person of this saint a God's heavenly patron with whom he will be spiritually connected throughout his life. Therefore, an unbaptized person, in general, does not have the right to celebrate his name day, because he has his name without reference to the personality of the heavenly patron.

For those who are initiated in the baptismal font, the name and patron are chosen by the parents (if they baptize the baby) or the person himself. The day in which the church calendar honors the memory of the chosen saint, and becomes the day of the name-day. In the event that someone was baptized as a child, but there were no records or memories of which of the saints was chosen as the patron of the person being baptized, the saint is defined as follows: the saints are taken and calculated, the day of the memory of one of the saints with the same name closest to him Birthday. He is the patron. In the same way, they act when a person chooses a name at baptism, but does not know which saint to prefer. In all other cases, the patron can be chosen irrespective of the date of birth, based only on intuition and a sense of special spiritual connection and sympathy. Calendar it can be any day.

Romana, whose name-day can fall on one of ten months of the year, is quite a wide choice in this regard. Of course, after the choice is made, it can no longer be changed. Below, we give the main list of dates that Romana's name-day falls on.

June

On the 13th of June, Romanov's name-day, named after the martyr of the same name, suffered for the faith in Christ. It was in a place called Nicomedia.

August

On the day of August 1, the namesakes of those who have their patron Saint Prince Roman of Ryazan, celebrated as a martyr for the faith in Christ, are celebrated. He was tortured and killed at the court of the khan on charges of blaspheming the pagan faith of the Tatar ruler. This was done on the slanderous denunciation of the khan's collectors of taxes, from the arbitrariness of which Prince Roman defended his subjects.

September

September 8 - confessor Roman. Name day orthodox believers with the name Roman on this day are celebrated in honor of the holy confessor, who went to the Lord in 1937, after many years of repression by the Soviet government. During his lifetime, he was a priest, and shortly before his death he also took monasticism with the name Joseph.

October

October 14 - Roman the Sweetheart. During his lifetime he served as a deacon in Constantinople.

November

On November 13, Romanov's birthday is celebrated, whose life, however, is unknown. There are plenty of such cases in church history.

December

December 1 - Romanina's name-day, named after the holy martyr of Caesarea (executed by pagans at the beginning of the fourth century for preaching the Gospel).

January

January 18 - Roman's memory of the Holy Martyr. It is only known about him that he took a martyr's end for the preaching work.

On the same day, the memory of the eponymous martyr, who died at the end of the seventeenth century, is honored. During his lifetime, he was one of the monks on Mount Athos. Once in Constantinople, he was forced by Muslims to accept Islam. For a determined refusal to do this, he was killed.

February

On February 11, the church recalls the martyr Roman from the city of Samosata. He was killed there by pagans during the persecution of Christians by the Emperor Diocletian at the end of the third century.

March

On March 2, a reverend disciple of St. Theodosius the Bulgarian is remembered. When the teacher died in the monastery founded by him, the Monk Roman became his rector, in whose rank he finished his life.

May

On the 15th of May, the day of memory of the holy prince Roman (Boris), a faithful martyr, is celebrated. He was the brother of Prince Hlib, the son of Prince Vladimir of Equal-to-the-Apostles, Krasnoe Solnyshko. I suffered in Rostov from the killers sent by order of his other brother - Svyatopolk. Together with Prince Gleb they are considered the first Russian saints.