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 Xenia of St Petersburg, name day 24 January (6 February on the Old Calendar). Christ & Vladimir Mother of God, $69.
Your name’s saint
St Xenia of St Petersburg
Αγία Ξένια η διά Χριστόν σαλή της Πετρουπόλεως · Блаженная Ксения Петербургская
Name day 24 January (6 February on the Old Calendar)
Greek custom keeps it with St Xenia of Rome: 24 January (6 February on the Old Calendar).
Xenia Grigorievna lived in eighteenth-century St Petersburg as the happy young wife of Andrew Feodorovich Petrov. When she was twenty-six her husband died suddenly at a party, without confession or Communion, and Xenia gave her whole life to praying for his soul.
The faithful ask St Xenia for
a good and God-fearing husband or wife
a happy marriage, and the return of love and peace between spouses
good husbands for one's daughters
the health and protection of children and loved ones
a home and help with housing
We don’t have an icon of St Xenia of St Petersburg 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.
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 home and household
Christ Pantocrator & Our Lady of Kazan Folding DiptychAlso prayed to for marriage and family
