When is Antonina’s name day?

Antonina can be celebrated on 4 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 Antonina is celebrated

The saints behind the name

• Antonina of Nicomedia

  January 9, Holy Woman, Αντωνίνα

  St. Antonina was a Christian woman of Nicomedia who confessed Christ during the persecutions. Tradition relates that after torture she was sewn into a sack and cast into the sea.

  Name days: Antonina

• Antonina of Nicaea

  March 1, Holy Woman, Αντωνίνα

  St. Antonina was a Christian woman of Nicaea in Bithynia who suffered during the persecutions of the early fourth century. Brought before the governor for refusing to sacrifice to idols, she was subjected to torture and imprisonment, and tradition relates that she was finally sewn into a sack and cast into a lake.

  Name days: Antonina

• Alexander and Antonina, Martyrs

  June 10, Holy Woman, Αλέξανδρος και Αντωνίνα

  Saint Antonina was a Christian virgin who, tradition relates, was condemned to a house of shame for refusing to sacrifice to idols. The soldier Alexander, moved by God, exchanged clothes with her so that she might escape, and when this was discovered both were tortured and burned together, in the early fourth century.

  Name days: Antonina

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

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.