Name day (from the word "name") - this is such a tradition in Christianity, the day when the memory of a saint is named in honor of which a person is named at baptism. The saint becomes the patron of the baby for life, his angel.
Therefore, the name day and the
day of the angel are identical concepts. Although sometimes the day of the angel means the day of baptism, and not the date of remembrance of the saint by whose name the person is named.
First day of remembrance
Many saints have several days of remembrance in a year. So, the day of the angel Hope can celebrate four times - March 14 and 20, September 30 and October 21. Still, the main nameday falls on the day of remembrance of the saint, who is closer in date to the day of christening.
The first day of the year of the angel, Nadezhda, is celebrated on the memory of the martyr Nadezhda (Abbakumova). The fate of this simple woman is tragic. Having been born in 1880 in the village of Vanilovo near Moscow, Nadezhda Petrovna has been a deeply religious person all her life. Her husband died in the First World War. Abbakumova herself raised children. She was devotedly devoted to the church, for which she was first elected to the church council, and then to the headman of the Martynovsky Church of the Nativity of Christ. In 1938 she was shot for anti-Soviet activities. She was numbered among the New Martyrs and Confessors in 2000. Commemoration of this saint falls on March 14th.
Another Russian Great Martyr
The next day of the angel, Hope celebrates March 29th. Reverend Martyr Nadezhda (Kruglova) was born in the village of Denisovo (Ryazan Region) in 1887. She was shot in the same 1938, according to the same article. But before the second arrest, the former novice of the Yegoryevsky monastery served 5 years in exile in Kazakhstan. She was canonized in 2003.
Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sofia
Celebrates Angel Day Hope and September 30th. On this date is the day of remembrance of the Hope of Rome. The ten-year-old girl suffered the inhuman suffering that she suffered for her faith.
In the years of early Christianity, Roman emperors persecuted advocates of the new religion with particular cruelty. Andrian ordered the woman Sofia and her three daughters, Faith, Hope and Love, to be sacrificed to the goddess Artemis - for their refusal to renounce faith in Christ. A woman with children was brutally tortured, after which her daughters were beheaded in front of a dying mother.
Not having time to accept tonsure
The last day of the year, a woman’s angel named Hope falls on October 21. This is a memorial day for another Russian martyr. Nadezhda Grigorievna Azhgerovich, born in 1877, was shot in 1937 all under the same article - “Anti-Soviet Activities”. She was born in the Minsk province, had a blessing to accept monasticism, but Nadezhda Grigoryevna did not have time to become a nun, that is, to accept tonsure. She lived all the time in closed monasteries of the Moscow region. She was numbered among the New Martyrs and Confessors in 2000.
The most famous martyrs
Congratulations on the day of the angel Faith, Hope, Love and Sophia accept, as mentioned above, September 30. The names of the daughters of the Roman Christian are known to absolutely everyone, including atheists.
The martyr girls (the eldest Vera was 12 years old, Nadezhda - 10, Lyubov - 9) suffered inhuman suffering: they were subjected to sophisticated tortures, and then their heads were cut off. Sofia’s torment was multiplied by the fact that, herself tortured, she was forced to look at the torment of her daughters. They also decapitated them before her eyes and told her to turn the bodies of the earth. After burying her daughters, Sofia died right there, on a fresh grave. The significance of these saints is so great that they are considered the four essences of the spiritual world and identified with the four essences of the material world. It looks like this: the earth is Faith, water is Hope, air is Love and light is knowledge. Sophia is identified with wisdom. These are eternal beings material and spiritual.
Such great significance in these names. Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov and Sophia accept congratulations on the day of the angel at a wonderful time of Indian summer. Memorial Day of the holy courageous steadfast women is celebrated once a year - September 30.
Meaning of the name
Most often, the name Hope is associated with a Roman girl. She is obedient in childhood, selflessly loves her mother, early on becomes independent. This is a loyal, reasonable and purposeful person, in a word, the energetics of the name are pure and positive, therefore it has always been popular, especially among the noble environment in the 19th century.
True, one can read that Nadezhda can be adventurous and prudent, that she has a masculine character and always comes to the intended goal, which is neither affectionate nor affable and is always closed. The positive features include hard work and hatred of gossip and gossip. The most important character traits are patience, responsiveness and determination. Opal, coral, agate and amber are the mascots of Hope. The color she likes is white and orange. Happy carriers of the week are Friday and the time of year is autumn.
Famous Hopes and their angel day
The vivid carriers of this name are the famous opera singer Nadezhda Ivanovna Zavela-Vrubel and Nadezhda Durova, actress Rumyantseva and singers Babkina and Kadysheva. And in Soviet times, the most famous and respected was Nadezhda Krupskaya.
Each concrete Nadezhda’s name day (angel’s day) has the right to celebrate once a year - on the day closest to her baptism in memory of the saint, the bearer of this name. But still the most famous, often considered the only one, is the day of remembrance of the four Roman martyrs, September 30. All bearers of these beautiful holy names in the wonderful season of golden autumn accept congratulations on angel's day. Hope, Love, Faith are “three virtues, like holy angels.”