When is Aristarchus’s name day?

Aristarchus can be celebrated on 2 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 Aristarchus is celebrated

The saints behind the name

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  Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens & Trophimus

  April 15, Apostle, Αρίσταρχος, Πούδης, Τρόφιμος

  The holy Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens, and Trophimus were of the Seventy, fellow laborers of the Apostle Paul who are named in his epistles. Aristarchus shared Paul's journeys and imprisonment; Pudens received the faithful into his house in Rome; Trophimus accompanied Paul on his travels and shared his final trials.

  Name days: Aristarchus, Trophimos

• Mark, Aristarchos and Zenon the Apostles

  September 27, Apostle, Μάρκος, Αρίσταρχος και Ζήνων

  St. Mark, called also John, is the kinsman of Barnabas named in the Acts and the Epistles; St. Aristarchos was the Apostle Paul's fellow prisoner and, tradition holds, bishop of Apamea in Syria; St. Zenon is the lawyer whom Paul commends to Titus, and is said to have been bishop of Diospolis.

  Name days: Aristarchos, Aristarchus

Also celebrating with Aristarchus

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

Trophimos, Aristarchos

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.