Name day is an important holiday for every Orthodox believer. It is similar to a birthday, because it is associated with baptism — spiritual birth into eternal life according to the teachings of the church. When a person goes through this rite, he is called with a name, necessarily in honor of a saint. From this moment, the newly baptized person has in the person of this saint God's divine patron, with whom he will be spiritually connected throughout his life. Therefore, an unbaptized person, in general, does not have the right to celebrate a name day, because he bears his name without reference to the personality of the heavenly patron.
For those who are initiating in the Epiphany font, the name and patron are chosen by the parents (if they baptize the baby), or the person himself. The day on which the memory of the chosen saint is venerated in the church calendar becomes a name day. If someone was baptized in childhood, but there are no records and memories of which of the saints was chosen as the patron saint of the baptized, then the saint is determined as follows: the saints are taken and calculated, the day of remembrance of which of the same named saints is closest to his person birthday. He is the patron. The same thing happens when a person at baptism chooses a name for himself, but does not know which of the saints to prefer. In all other cases, the patron can be chosen without regard to the date of birth, based only on intuition and a feeling of special spiritual connection and sympathy. Calendar it can be any day.
Romana, whose name day may occur in one of ten months of the year, is waiting for a fairly wide selection in this regard. Of course, after the choice is made, it is no longer possible to change it. Below we provide a basic list of dates on which Roman’s name day falls.
June
On June 13 there are the name-days of Roman, named after the martyr of the same name who suffered for his faith in Christ. It was in a place called Nicomedia.
August
On the day of August 1, the name day of those who have their patron saint, Prince Roman of Ryazan, celebrated as a martyr for his faith in Christ, is celebrated. He was tortured and killed at the court of the khan on charges of blaspheming the pagan faith of the Tatar ruler. This was done according to the slanderous denunciation of the Khan tax collectors, from the arbitrariness of which Prince Roman defended his subjects.
September
September 8 - Confessor Roman. On this day, Orthodox believers with the name Roman celebrate in honor of the holy confessor, who departed to the Lord in 1937, after many years of repression by the Soviet government. During his lifetime, he was a priest, and shortly before his death, he also adopted monasticism with the name Joseph.
October
October 14 - Roman Sladkopevets. During his life he served as a deacon in Constantinople.
November
On November 13, Roman's birthday is celebrated, whose life, however, is unknown. There are plenty of such cases in church history.
December
December 1 - the name day of Roman, named after the holy martyr of Caesarea (executed by pagans at the beginning of the fourth century for preaching the gospel).
January
January 18 is the memory of the Roman martyr. All that is known about him is that he accepted the martyrdom for the work of preaching.
On the same day, the memory of the same martyr who died at the end of the seventeenth century is honored. During his lifetime, he was one of the monks on Mount Athos. Once in Constantinople, he was forced by Muslims to accept Islam. For the decisive refusal to do so, he was killed.
February
On February 11, the church recalls the martyr Roman of the city of Samosata. He was killed there by pagans during the persecution of Christians by the emperor Diocletian at the end of the third century.
March
On March 2, the venerable disciple of St. Theodosius of Bulgaria is remembered. When the teacher died in the monastery he founded, the Monk Roman became his rector, in whose rank he ended his life.
May
On the 15th of May, the Day of Remembrance of St. Prince Roman (Boris), the blessed martyr, is celebrated. He was the brother of Prince Gleb, the son of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir the Red Sun. He suffered in Rostov from killers sent by order of his other brother - Svyatopolk. Together with Prince Gleb they are considered the first Russian saints.