Every Orthodox Christian bears the name of a saint who keeps watch over them, and keeps that saint’s feast as a name day. Type a first name to find the saint, the name day on both calendars, and the icon to give.
Your name’s saint. St Demetrios of Thessaloniki, name day 26 October (8 November on the Old Calendar). Christ & Vladimir Mother of God, $69.
Your name’s saint
St Demetrios of Thessaloniki
Άγιος Μεγαλομάρτυς Δημήτριος ο Μυροβλύτης · Великомученик Димитрий Солунский
Name day 26 October (8 November on the Old Calendar)
Dimitra is another spelling of Demetria. Demetria, a form of Demetrius, keeps her name day with St Demetrios of Thessaloniki.
St Demetrios was the son of the Roman proconsul of Thessaloniki, secretly baptized and raised in the faith by his parents. When Emperor Galerius Maximian made him proconsul in his father's place, charged with defending the city and stamping out Christianity, Demetrios instead preached Christ openly.
The faithful ask St Demetrios for
courage in danger and in battle
protection of soldiers and of one's city and country
healing from illness
strengthening of faith
the repose of departed parents and of soldiers who fell for faith and country (Dmitrievskaya Saturday)
We don’t have an icon of St Demetrios of Thessaloniki yet.
Today, 16 October, the Church remembers St Longinus the Centurion; on the Old Calendar, St Dionysius the Areopagite.
The gift for a name day
Each folding icon pairs the patron saint with the Guardian Angel, printed under glass in velvet covers. The Name-Day Gift Set adds a crucifix and a prayer rope, in a gift box with a card giving the saint’s life and feast day.
Add Consecration, $49, if you wish: our priest consecrated each folding icon before it left the workshop, one by one, with holy water and the prayers of the Church.
St Nicholas, St Matthew, St Mark, St Patrick, St Edward, St Olaf and the Holy Foremother Eve, each beside the Guardian Angel, and the St John the Warrior and Guardian Angel diptych for those who serve.
The Greek, Antiochian, Romanian and Bulgarian Churches and the Orthodox Church in America keep the feasts on the New Calendar. The Russian, Serbian and Georgian Churches, Jerusalem and Mount Athos keep the Old Calendar, thirteen days later. We give both dates.
One day, or the nearest saint
Greek custom keeps one name day for each name. In the Russian custom a person keeps the day of the saint of their name whose feast comes first after their birthday, so a name can have several days.
A name with no saint
A name that no saint bore keeps its name day, by Greek custom, on All Saints’ Sunday. By an old custom a patron can also be chosen among the saints of the birthday or the baptism day, and every Orthodox Christian has a Guardian Angel from baptism. Many take a saint’s name at baptism or chrismation: if they have one, type that name.
Name days and saints from the Greek name-day calendar (eortologio.net), the Russian Church’s calendar of saints (azbyka.ru) and the Orthodox Church in America’s Lives of the Saints.
Christ (Zvenigorod Saviour) & Vladimir Mother of God Folding DiptychAlso prayed to for grief and sorrow
St John the Warrior & Guardian Angel Folding DiptychAlso prayed to for police officers
