When is Makis’s name day?

Makis 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 Makis is celebrated

The saints behind the name

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  Maximos the Confessor

  January 21, Hierarch, Μάξιμος

  St. Maximos the Confessor was a monk and theologian of the seventh century. Leaving high office in Constantinople for the monastic life, he became the great champion of the truth that Christ, being true God and true man, possesses both a divine and a human will, standing almost alone against the Monothelite heresy supported by emperor and patriarch.

  Name days: Maximos, Makis, Max, Maksim, Maxim, Maximus

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  Maximos the Confessor

  August 13, Venerable, Μάξιμος

  St. Maximos the Confessor was a monk and theologian of the seventh century. Leaving high office in Constantinople for the monastic life, he became the great defender of the true faith against monothelitism, teaching that Christ, being true God and true man, possesses both a divine and a human will. For refusing to keep silence he was tried, mutilated, and exiled, dying in banishment in 662.

  Name days: Makis, Max, Maximos, Maximus

• Gerasimos of Cephalonia (Repose)

  August 16, Venerable, Γεράσιμος Κεφαλληνίας

  Saint Gerasimos was born in the Peloponnese in the sixteenth century, became a monk on Mount Athos and later settled on Cephalonia, where he founded a convent at Omala and served the people in famine and sickness. He reposed on the fifteenth of August 1579.

  Name days: Gerasimos, Makis, Gerasim, Gerasimoula

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

Also celebrating with Makis

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

Maximos, Max, Maksim, Maxim, Maximus, Gerasimos, Gerasim, Gerasimoula, Gerasimus

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.