Name day of Daniel. Days of the name day of Daniel in the church calendar

In our time, few people celebrate the Day of Name Day. And few people think about what this day means. And yet it is quite an important holiday, although it makes sense only when a person adheres to Orthodox or Catholic views. The fact is that the name-day is a purely church holiday. The names of a person are a day of the memory of that saint, in honor of whom he was baptized. Of course, there are many saints with the same name. But the patron of them is selected only one. If it happened that a person baptized as a child does not know a saint, after whom he was called, he can choose his patron on his own - either on the basis of personal sympathies or according to the following practice: it is necessary to find in the church calendar the nearest to the date of birth the day of the memory of his namesake . This is something holy and will be considered a patron, and this day - the name-day. Change in the future once made the choice is impossible - the spiritual connection between a person and his saints remains forever.

Below, we will look at the days on which the Daniel's feast day can be held according to the Orthodox calendar. It is worth mentioning immediately that this is the main, but not the complete list of the same saints. There are no such saints, in which the names of all the saints known in Orthodoxy would be collected. There are many local, national, overseas church glorified by the saints of God, who are not known in Russia or who are not surrounded by all-church veneration. Therefore, when choosing a patron, one can show some flexibility and turn to the list of saints, for example, the Bulgarian, Serbian, Alexandrian or some other Orthodox local church.

June

On June 5, the name day of Daniel is celebrated, named in memory of the eponymous martyr, Hegumen of Grekhozarutsky. During his lifetime he was the abbot of the monastery in Uglich. He died at the hands of Polish-Lithuanian soldiers, together with 30 inhabitants of his monastery and 250 laymen.

July

July 23 - the memory of the martyr Daniel of Nikopol. This Armenian saint accepted death during the persecution of believers in Christ under the emperor Licinia in the IV century.

September

September 25 celebrate the name day of Daniel, bearing the name of the monk, who died in 840. During his lifetime, he was a virtuous monk who carried his monastic feat in a cave on the island of Thassos in the Aegean Sea in the territory of modern Greece.

October

On October 4, Daniel celebrates the day of the name-day, associated with the memory of his reverend namesake from Shuzhgorskaya Mountain. In the days of mortal life he was a monk, a hermit who spent his days on the above-mentioned mountain, where eventually a monastery was formed. He lived in the 16th century and was buried in his own monastery.

November

On November 25, Saint Daniel is remembered. In addition to the fact that such a person existed, there were no data about him, including those for what and when he was ranked as a saint.

December

December 30 - the name day of Daniel, the ward of the eponymous prophet, whose book is included in the canon of the Bible. He lived in the 7th-6th centuries BC. E. He came from a noble Jewish family, but, along with his fellow countrymen, was taken to Babylonian captivity. Having received Chaldean education, he served at the court of King Nebuchadnezzar, and later - Cyrus and Darius. He became famous for the gift of interpreting dreams.

January

On January 2, the church honors the memory of the holy Serbian archbishop Daniel II. This Saint lived in the XIII-XIV centuries. Coming from Serbia, was an approximate Serbian king. Later he took monastic vows and retired to Athos, where he was rector of one of the monasteries. Then he was ordained a bishop, and then elevated to the archbishop of Serbia. In this rank and lived the last fourteen years of his life. He died in 1338.

March

March 17, celebrates the birthday of Daniel, named in memory of the Moscow prince. This saint was the fourth son of St. Alexander Nevsky. He was the founder of the Danilovsky Moscow Monastery, in which he died, after taking monastic vows, in 1303.

April

April 30 - the memory of the Monk Daniil Pereyaslavsky. He became famous in the monastic feat.