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Do you know your name day?

Do you know your name day?

  • yes

    Votes: 3 37.5%

  • yes, and I celebrate it

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • no

    Votes: 1 12.5%

  • I do not know what a name day is

    Votes: 4 50.0%
  • Total voters
    8
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Do you know your name day?

A name day is a tradition in some countries in Europe, Latin America, and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox countries in general. It consists of celebrating a day of the year that is associated with one's given name. The celebration is similar to a birthday.

The custom originated with the Christian calendar of saints: believers named after a saint would celebrate that saint's feast day, or in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the day of a saint's death. Name days have greater resonance in the Catholic and Orthodox parts of Europe; Protestant churches practice less veneration of saints. In many countries, however, name-day celebrations no longer have connection to explicitly Christian traditions.
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Namenstag – Wikipedia
 
I have clicked onto "yes"
 
Some people may think that "name days" are something "Catholic" and that one goes to hell for celebrating one's name day. :)
 
Rumpel said:
Some people may think that "name days" are something "Catholic" and that one goes to hell for celebrating one's name day. :)
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Sadly your mailbox is overloaded like a hospital during a pandemic.
 
Mailbox is free now! :)
 
I understood "though" :)
 
Ever step into an elevator that already has two people in it having a very, very private conversation?
 
Don't know and don't care...:roll:
 
Saint Hilary of Arles, also known by his Latin name Hilarius (c. 403-449), was a bishop of Arles in Southern France. He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches
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Hilary of Arles - Wikipedia

The saint of today
 
There are just 2 votes in the poll.
What hinders you to vote?
 
We all have names.

Why not be interested in one's own name?
 
What comes to my mind just now:

German Protestants are often very much opposed to the custom of the name day, which they declare as "Catholic rubbish!"

But they make ONE exception: the 11th of November = Saint Martin's Day.

That day is often celebrated in great style - thinking of Martin Luther. :)
 
How about this name...Jehovah...the greatest name in the universe...
 
Here now is the Saint of the day: Mary of Egypt. :)

Saint Mary, also known as Maria Aegyptiaca, was born somewhere in the Province of Egypt, and at the age of twelve she ran away from her parents to the city of Alexandria. Here she lived an extremely dissolute life.[4] In her Vita it states that she often refused the money offered for her sexual favors, as she was driven "by an insatiable and an irrepressible passion," and that she mainly lived by begging, supplemented by spinning flax.
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Mary of Egypt - Wikipedia
 
The name day for today is: Kilian! (y)
 
@ about name days in Poland:

Traditionally, name day celebrations (Polish: imieniny) have often enjoyed a celebratory emphasis greater than that of birthday celebrations in Poland.[citation needed] However, birthday celebrations are increasingly popular and important, particularly among the young as well as the older generation in the territories regained after the Second World War due to remaining Prussian Protestant influences.

Name day celebrations involve the gathering and socialising of friends and family at the celebrant's home, as well as the giving of gifts and flowers at home and elsewhere, such as at the workplace. This tradition doesn't include regions of Upper Silesia and Kashubia. Local calendars often contain the names celebrated on a given day. If a name is celebrated on more than one day, it is customary to choose the first day after the celebrant's birthday.
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More about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_days_in_Poland
 
I find this hostility against name days hard to understand.
One's name is important personally, isn't it?
 
  • Total voters 3
1 x yes
1 x no
1 x don't know
 
Rumpel said:
I find this hostility against name days hard to understand.
One's name is important personally, isn't it?
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No, it isn't. One's name is a random choice by decided one's parents, unless one then decides to later change that name. Names have zero significance. Some people don't like their first name and some go by their middle name. Your personal feeling about first names are your personal feelings. There is no hostility, jut indifference to things that you find so very important for your own reasons.
 
Don't know, don't care.
 
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