When is Hesychios’s name day?

Hesychios 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 Hesychios is celebrated

The saints behind the name

• Hesychios

  March 3, Martyr, Ησύχιος

  St. Hesychios was a martyr of Antioch who suffered during the Roman persecutions of the early fourth century. Tradition remembers him as a man of rank who, when the emperor demanded that Christians in imperial service deny their faith or lose their honors, laid aside his dignities rather than deny Christ, and was put to death for his confession.

  Name days: Hesychios, Isychios

• Hesychios of Antioch

  May 10, Martyr, Ησύχιος ο Ομολογητής

  Hesychios was a high-ranking official in Antioch in the reign of Maximian Galerius. When Christians were ordered to leave the imperial service, he willingly laid aside his rank, and when he refused to sacrifice he was thrown into the river Orontes with a millstone about his neck.

  Name days: Hesychios, Isychios, Hesychius

Also celebrating with Hesychios

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

Isychios, Hesychius

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.