Name day - it is an important holiday for every believer of the Orthodox.It is similar to the birthday, as linked to the baptism - spiritual birth into eternal life according to the teachings of the church.When a person passes this ceremony, anoint him any name, always in honor of a saint.Since then, the newly baptized is in the face of this heavenly patron saint of God, which will be spiritually connected throughout their lives.Therefore, an unbaptized person, in general, do not have the right to celebrate the name day, because his name is not tied to the individual patron saint.
For those who pass the initiation into the baptismal font, and the name of the patron saint chosen by parents (if the baby is baptized), or the man himself.The day in which the church calendar commemorates St. selected and becomes day birthday.If someone was baptized as a child, but did not have any records and memories of who was elected from the holy patron of the baptized, the Holy defined as follows: calendar are taken and evaluated, the day of memory of someone of like the holy man closest to himbirthday.It was he who is patron.In the same way comes when a person at baptism elect a name, but does not know which of the saints prefer.In all other cases, a patron can choose without regard to the date of birth, based solely on intuition and feeling special spiritual connection and sympathy.Calendar it could be any day.
Roman, name of which may occur in one of the ten months of the year, is waiting for a fairly wide choice in this regard.Of course, after the choice is made, it can not be changed.Below we give the main list of dates, which accounts for the name day Roman.
June
June 13 accounted name-Roman, named in honor of the eponymous martyr who suffered for their faith in Christ.It was in a place called Nicomedia.
August
On the day of August 1 celebrated the name day of those who have their patron saint of Prince Roman of Ryazan, glorified as a martyr for the faith in Christ.He was tortured and killed at the court of Khan on charges of blasphemy pagan faith Tatar ruler.This was done for slanderous denunciation Khan's tax collectors, from the tyranny of the prince Roman defended his subjects.
September
September 8 - Confessor Roman.Name day Orthodox Christians named Roman in this day is celebrated in honor of the holy confessor, departed to the Lord in 1937, after years of repression by the Soviet government.During his lifetime he was a priest, and shortly before his death, and took another monk named Joseph.
October
October 14 - Roman Melodist.During his life served as deacon in Constantinople.
November
November 13 celebrated the name day Roman, whose life, however, is unknown.Such cases abound in church history.
December December 1 - the name day Roman, named in honor of the Holy Martyr Caesarea (pagans executed early in the fourth century for preaching the Gospel).
January
January 18 - the memory of the Holy Martyr Roman.About him we know only that he accepted a martyr for the cause of the end of the sermon.
the same day of the same name commemorates Martyr, who died in the late seventeenth century.During his lifetime he was one of the monks on Mount Athos.Once in Constantinople, we were compelled Muslims to accept Islam.In the resolute refusal to do so he was killed.
February 11 February the Church remembers the Roman martyr from Samosata.He was killed there pagans during the persecution of Christians under the emperor Diocletian in the late third century.
March
March 2 recall Monk disciple of St. Theodosius the Bulgarian.When the teacher died in the monastery founded by him, the Rev. Roman became its rector, with the rank of which ended his life.
May 15 of May is celebrated feast day of St. Prince Roman (Boris), the faithful martyr.He was the brother of Prince Gleb, the son of Prince Vladimir the Red Sun.Rostov suffered from assassins sent by order of his other brother - Svjatopolka.Together with Prince Gleb they are the first Russian saints.
