When to celebrate the name day of Anastasia?

Anastasia is a beautiful ancient name, meaningwhich is "risen" or "resurrector". It is believed that women with this name are very complex and changeable nature, gentle with loved ones and cold with strangers or enemies.

At the same time, Anastassy's magnificent intuition is often noted, and sometimes even their ability to foresee and predict certain events.

Name days in Anastasia can be celebrated a fewonce a year, because for the saints for some reason, many women with that name were counted. This holiday every Anastasia has its own name day after birthday.

Nastia, born in winter, is likely to becelebrate the day of the angel on December 17 or 26, or on January 4. The spring name-day of Anastasia falls on March 23, April 5 or 28, and also on May 10 or 28. Names of Anastasia, whose birth date falls on the summer, are celebrated on June 1, 9, 4, 17, and August 10. Nastia, celebrating a birthday in the autumn, will celebrate the day of the angel on November 11-12.

The dates on which the name day of Anastasia falls,are chosen quite by chance, because these days with Anastasias, ranked saints, there were some events, as a rule, they correspond to the dates of their death or simply the church holidays dedicated to these saints. For Anastassy, ​​the church most often recognizes three patronesses: Anastasia the Patroness, Anastasia Patricia of Alexandria and Anastasia of Solunskaya.

Anastasia the Patroness, patroness of Nastya,celebrating the name day on January 4, lived in the 4th century AD. in Rome, during the formation of Christianity. She, born in a noble family, from childhood, professed this religion, although her father was a pagan and married her to a pagan. The marriage was unhappy: Anastasia's husband did not approve of her desire to help Christians who were persecuted and imprisoned in dungeons. She had to endure a large number of beatings and humiliations, so she left her husband and went to wander in order to support fellow believers. When the affairs of Anastasia became known to the emperor, he ordered either to persuade her back to paganism, or to execute. Anastasia did not agree to renounce the faith and was subjected to execution. Saint Anastasia the Patroness is the patroness of prisoners and pregnant women.

Anastasia Patricia Alexandria lived in Alexandria in the 6th century AD. and was
the daughter of an aristocrat. Shortly after her marriage, she became a widow and secretly founded a monastery near Alexandria. After the widow and emperor Justinian was widowed, he, who had an acquaintance with Anastasia, even when she was married, wanted to find her and marry her, but she hid for 28 years in a cave in utter solitude. The truth was revealed only after her death. Names of Anastasia, who enjoys the protection of this saint, are celebrated on March 23 according to a new style.

Martyr Anastasia Romanyina Solunskaya vein in 3century AD. She was an orphan and was subjected to public torture for believing in Christ, during which she was cut off from her tongue. But even after that, she did not reject her faith. The executioners cut off her head, stopping the torture. The names of Anastasia Solunskaya are on 11-12 November.

There is another famous Anastasia, alsoranked saints, however, most recently. Her day falls on July 17, the date of her death. It is about the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian monarch Nicholas II. Anastasia and her family were shot in Yekaterinburg when she was 17 years old.

Such is the story of the well-known Anastasius, ranked among the saints. It is always worth remembering them, thinking about the meaning of the holiday of the name-day.