When is Olympia’s name day?

Olympia 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 Olympia is celebrated

The saints behind the name

• Olympia and Euphrosyne of Mytilene

  May 11, Holy Woman, Ολυμπία και Ευφροσύνη

  Olympia was born in Constantinople and became a nun on the island of Lesbos, where she was joined by Euphrosyne. Tradition relates that pirates raided their monastery in the thirteenth century and, when the nuns refused to renounce Christ, put Olympia to death with nails.

  Name days: Olympia

• Olympias the Deaconess

  July 25, Holy Woman, Ολυμπιάς η Διακόνισσα

  St. Olympias was a noblewoman of Constantinople who, widowed young, devoted her great wealth to the Church and the poor and was ordained a deaconess. She was a close friend and supporter of St. John Chrysostom, and shared his sufferings when he was exiled.

  Name days: Olympia, Olympias, Olympiada, Olymbia, Olimpia, Olympie

Also celebrating with Olympia

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

Olympias, Olympiada, Olymbia, Olimpia, Olympie

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.