When is Anastasius’s name day?

Anastasius can be celebrated on 5 feasts in the Orthodox calendar. People keep the feast of the saint they were named for, or the one their family has always kept.

Every feast on which Anastasius is celebrated

The saints behind the name

• Anastasios the Persian

  January 22, Martyr, Αναστάσιος ο Πέρσης

  St. Anastasios was a Persian soldier who, tradition relates, was drawn to Christ when the True Cross was carried to Persia after the sack of Jerusalem in 614. Baptized in Jerusalem, he became a monk; returning to Persia he was arrested, tortured, and strangled in 628.

  Name days: Anastasios, Anastasis, Anastasius, Tasos, Anastas

• 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

• Anastasios the Confessor

  March 10, Hierarch, Αναστάσιος

  St. Anastasios was a hierarch of the Church of Jerusalem who bore the title of confessor, one who suffered for the faith without denying Christ. The synaxaria preserve little of his life beyond his faithful witness in a time when the Church was tried by heresy and persecution.

  Name days: Anastasios, Anastasis, Tasos, Tassos, Stathis, Anastasius

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

Also celebrating with Anastasius

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

Anastasios, Anastasis, Tasos, Anastas, Anastasia, Natasa, Tasia, Tasoula, Tassos, Stathis

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.