Who will celebrate October 15? The Day of the Angel - October 15
All parents should know what to callthe child is desirable for the name of that saint, whose day of memory is next to the birthday of the baby. If such names do not suit them, you can choose any other date later. Annually, on October 15, several men and two women celebrate their name day. From this list, you can try to select a suitable name.
On October, 15th men's names are named?
This date is a day of remembrance of many Christian ascetics:
- Andrei Tsaregradsky, Christ for the sake of the holy fool;
- Boris and Vasily - the Kazan martyrs;
- St. George of Athos, martyr;
- Demetrius, Jacob, John - martyrs of Kazan;
- Cyprian (Kuprian) - Holy Martyr;
- Mikhail, Peter, Silvan, Stefan - the Kazan martyrs;
- Theodore of Havra, Theodore of Kazan - martyrs.
On the same day, October 15, the name-day celebrates women, whom Anna and Justina (Ustinya) named. Throughout their lives, the saints with these names carried faith in the Lord.
Blessed Andrew Tsaregradsky
This person lived in Constantinople (Tsargrad) inX century. One day, in a dreaming dream, Andrei saw an angel who directed him to fight "black warriors" who oppose the Christian faith. For this, the young man dressed in rags and became a fool. He asked for charity, which he then gave to the poor, suffered beatings, ridicule, mockery.
On October 15, the names of men are celebrated by everyone who was so named. On this day the church honors Blessed Andrew.
The Kazan Martyrs
Immediately after the feast of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary on October 15, the day of remembrance of the Kazan martyrs of Boris, Vasily, Dimitry, Jacob, John, Michael, Peter, Silvan, Stephen, Theodore is celebrated.
The information about their life remained a little. It is only known that the Orthodox Slavs and Tatars in Kazan became martyrs at the hands of the Hagar. There were records that they accepted their suffering and death in 1552-1553.
More information is available on the life of the three Kazan martyrs: John, Stefan and Peter. All of them were martyred for their faith in Jesus Christ.
Peter and Stephen were Tatars living in Kazan. At one time, they abandoned Islam and turned to the Orthodox faith. Stefan, who suffered from more than twenty years of relaxation of his legs, was healed after his baptism. But as soon as the Russian troops left Kazan, the Tatars chopped the martyr into pieces, dispersed his body, and the house was plundered. Petra was beaten to death by his relatives after they learned that he had converted to the Orthodox faith.
All the martyrs are remembered by the church on October 15. The names of Peter and Stephen are on March 24th. The feast of the martyr John is also on 24 January.
The names of October 15 are feminine. Anna and Ustinya
Princess Anna Kashinskaya was born in 1280. She was the wife of Tver prince Michael Yaroslavich. After her husband was brutally tortured to death in the Horde in 1318, she goes to the Tver Sophia Monastery. Here the princess is tonsured into a nun named Euphrosyne. After a while she moved to the Kashinsky Uspensky Monastery. Efrosinia is comprehended in the schema with the name Anna. Here she lived until her death. To the Lord Schemonahina Anna departed on October 2 (15), 1368.
