Nowadays, few people celebrate Name Day. And few people think about what this day means. Meanwhile, this is a rather important holiday, although it makes sense only when a person adheres to Orthodox or Catholic views. The fact is that name days are a purely church holiday. A person’s name day is the day of remembrance of that saint in whose honor he was named during baptism. Of course, there are many saints with the same name. But the patron of them is selected only one. If it happens that a person baptized in childhood does not know the saint in whose honor he was named, he can choose his own patron saint - either on the basis of personal sympathies or according to the following practice: you need to find the namesday closest to the birthday in the church calendar . This saint will be considered the patron saint, and this day - name day. It is impossible to change the once made choice in the future - the spiritual connection between a person and his saint remains forever.
Below we look at the days on which the name day of Daniel according to the Orthodox calendar can be. It is worth mentioning right away that this, although the main, but far from a complete list of saints of the same name. There are no such saints in which the names of all the saints known in Orthodoxy would be collected. There are many locally revered, national, foreign church-worshipers of God glorified by the church who are not known in Russia or who are not surrounded by church veneration. Therefore, when choosing a patron, you can show some flexibility and refer to the list of saints, for example, the Bulgarian, Serbian, Alexandrian or any other Orthodox local church.
June
On June 5, the name day of Daniel, named in memory of the eponymous martyr, hegumen Grekhozarutsky, is celebrated. During his lifetime, he was the head of the monastery in Uglich. He died at the hands of Polish-Lithuanian soldiers along with 30 inhabitants of his monastery and 250 laymen.
July
July 23 - memory of the martyr Daniel Nikopolsky. This Armenian saint received death during the persecution of believers in Christ under the emperor Licinius in the 4th century.
September
On September 25, they celebrate the birthday of Daniel, bearing the name of the reverend, 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 on the territory of modern Greece.
October
October 4 celebrates Daniel's name day, associated with the memory of his reverend namesake from the Shuzhgorskaya mountain. In the days of earthly life, he was a monk, a hermit, who spent his days on the mountain, where over time a monastery was formed. He lived in the 16th century and was buried in his own monastery.
November
November 25, St. Daniel is remembered. In addition to the fact that such a person existed, no information was left about him, including those for which and when he was counted as a saint.
December
December 30 - name day of Daniel, ward of the eponymous prophet, whose book is included in the canon of the Bible. He lived in the VII-VI centuries BC. e. He came from a noble Jewish family, but, together with his other compatriots, fell into Babylonian captivity. Having received a Chaldean education, he served at the court of King Nebuchadnezzar, and later Cyrus and Darius. He became famous for his interpretation of 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. He came from Serbia, was close to the Serbian king. Later he accepted monasticism and retired to Mount Athos, where he was rector of one of the monasteries. Then he was ordained 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 is celebrated on the name day of Daniel, named in memory of the Prince of Moscow. This saint was the fourth son of St. Alexander Nevsky. He was the founder of the Danilovsky Moscow monastery, in which he died, taking monastic tonsure, in 1303.
April
April 30 - memory of St. Daniel Pereyaslavsky. He became famous in a monastic feat.