When is Modestos’s name day?

Modestos 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 Modestos is celebrated

The saints behind the name

• Modestos

  May 12, Martyr, Μόδεστος

  The Holy Martyr Modestos suffered for Christ in the early centuries of the Church. Of his life the synaxaria preserve little beyond his faithful confession, that he refused to deny the Lord and sealed his witness with his blood.

  Name days: Modestos, Modestus

• Modestos of Jerusalem

  December 16, Hierarch, Μόδεστος Ιεροσολύμων

  Modestos was Archbishop of Jerusalem in the seventh century. After the Persians sacked the city and carried off the Holy Cross, he laboured to restore the ruined churches and monasteries of the Holy Land, and was formally made patriarch when the Cross was returned.

  Name days: Modestos, Modest, Modestus

Also celebrating with Modestos

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

Modestus, Modest

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.