Patron saints by name
Find your patron saint by name
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.
Another form of your name. Evi is a short form of Eve. Holy Foremother Eve, name day the Sunday between 11 and 17 December (13 December in 2026; 27 December on the Old Calendar). Holy Foremother Eve & Guardian Angel, $69.
Another form of your name
Holy Foremother Eve
Αγία Προμήτωρ Εύα · Праматерь Ева
Name day the Sunday between 11 and 17 December (13 December in 2026; 27 December on the Old Calendar)
Evi is a short form of Eve.
Eve was created by God from the side of Adam to be his helper and companion, and she was named "the mother of all living." Deceived by the serpent, she ate of the forbidden tree and gave the fruit to Adam, and with him she was driven out of Paradise. Yet God did not abandon her.
The faithful ask Holy Foremother Eve for
- the gift of motherhood and a safe childbirth
- a happy marriage
- true repentance and return to God
- hope in God's promise of salvation
- humility and obedience to God's word
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.
Or give the saint’s folding icon on its own, $69: every saint we carry.
How name days are kept
Two calendars
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.
