When is Anastasia’s name day?

Most people named Anastasia keep their name day on December 22, the feast of Anastasia the Pharmakolytria. The Orthodox calendar has 3 other feasts for the name.

Every feast on which Anastasia is celebrated

The saints behind the name

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  Anastasia the Pharmakolytria

  December 22, Holy Woman, Αναστασία η Φαρμακολύτρια

  The great martyr Anastasia was a Roman Christian of noble birth who suffered under the persecution of Diocletian at the turn of the fourth century. She devoted her wealth and freedom to visiting imprisoned Christians, tending their wounds and strengthening them for their contest, until she herself was seized and, after many trials, put to death.

  Name days: Anastasia, Nastia, Natasha, Stacy

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  Anastasia

  January 4, Holy Woman, Αναστασία

  St. Anastasia was a holy woman and martyr of Rome who gave her life for Christ during the persecutions of the early Church. The synaxaria preserve little of her story beyond her faithful confession, but her name, which means resurrection, has been cherished by the faithful as a sign of the hope for which she died.

  Name days: Anastasia, Nastia, Natasha, Stacy

• Anastasios of Nafplio

  February 1, Martyr, Αναστάσιος ο Ναυπλιεύς

  St. Anastasios was a painter from Nafplio in the Peloponnese. Tradition relates that after a broken betrothal he was driven out of his senses and in that state was drawn into professing Islam; when he came to himself he publicly renounced it and confessed Christ before the Turkish authorities.

  Name days: Anastasios, Anastasis, Tasos, Anastasius, Anastasia, Natasa, Tasia, Tasoula

The other feasts are listed in the table above, each with a link to the saint’s life.

Also celebrating on December 22

These names share the feast, many of them other forms of the same name:

Nastia, Natasha, Stacy

What to say on a name day

The Greek wish is Χρόνια Πολλά (Chronia Polla), “many years.” A call or a short message on the day is what people remember. See name day wishes you can send and what a name day is.