When is Isidora’s name day?

Isidora 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 Isidora is celebrated

The saints behind the name

• Isidora the Fool-for-Christ

  May 1, Holy Woman, Ισιδώρα

  Isidora was a nun of the women's monastery of Tabennisi in Egypt in the fourth century. She took the lowliest tasks of the kitchen, ate only scraps, and let the sisters mock her as a simpleton, bearing everything without complaint.

  Name days: Isidora, Sidora

• Isidora and Neophyte

  October 17, Holy Woman, Ισιδώρα και Νεοφύτη

  Isidora and Neophyte are commemorated together in the Synaxarion of this day among the holy women who pleased God. The details of their lives are not preserved, and tradition relates only that they reposed in peace.

  Name days: Isidora, Neophyte, Neofyti

Also celebrating with Isidora

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

Sidora, Neophyte, Neofyti

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.