Does the Anglican Community know name days?

Does the Anglican Community know name days?

And:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_day

Now I wonder:

Do you know name days?

And specially: Do you know your own name day?

I know my name day, though I do not celebrate it.

 

As a Bernhard or Bernard I have more than 20 name days.
The main name day for me is August 20th

 

Totally off my radar. No idea what day my name day would be.

 

@ Peter and Paul

https://themeaningofthename.com/name-day-calendar/?dt=29/06/

 

I know when my name day is but I do not celebrate it. I did once try to start the custom among my family and friends but they were all opposed to it.

It is most definitely not a British or Anglican custom.

I have have only ever known one person who celebrated his name day and he was a Greek Cypriot and not surprisingly Eastern Orthodox.

 

This topic has always been on my radar.

 

Let's say your name is Benedict. Your name day will be on Sunday (11th July), the feast of St. Benedict.

 

There are three name days that many people know for certain reasons:

Nicholas >>> 6th of December
Barbara >>> 4th of December
Silvester >>> 31st of December

 

I'm referring back to post #4, which does not seem to have been quoted very well.

Wouldn't there be more than one option for both those names as both of those saints have more than one feast?

 

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And: Main issue there is the 29th of June

 

That's very European. In many European countries the day is known as St Sylvester. I'm not sure how many British Roman Catholics would know what we call New Year's Eve is St Sylvester's Day. It both the current and pre-Vatican II calendars he is no more than a simple commemoration.

 

I did and I read it but when I clicked 'Reply' that part of your post did not appear and it is that fact to which I was referring.

You have said your own name has more than twenty possible dates on which it can be celebrated. That is why I asked about Ss Peter & Paul. Both of those saints have more than one feast so surely it is possible for someone called Paul or Peter to observe their name day on one of those other days. For example, a couple may have named their child Paul because he was born on 25th January and the parents knew it was the Conversion of St. Paul.

 

I am European.
Yes, I confess it.
I am one of those terrible Europeans that you seem to hate very much.
Maybe it would be a good idea if we tried to ignore each other's postings?
So as to keep the peace.

 

Well, unless there has been a significant change in geography of which I am unaware I, too, am a European.

I do not believe being European is a sin. As we can never change it we are both in dire straits.

I have absolutely no idea how you have reached this completely unfounded conclusion.

If that will make you happy I have no problem in agreeing to it. However, there is no animosity on my part. If you do not understand anything I have said it would be more charitable to ask me to clarify it than to make false assumptions about my intent.

 

Bernhard II of Baden is my Patron Saint

And:

https://www.wikipe.wiki/wiki/de/Bernhard_II._(Baden)

 

Interesting to learn of a saint I have not previously heard of. In post #2 you mentioned 20th August which is the feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, considered in your church to be a Doctor of the Church, so I understood you to be named after him. That was my father's birthday and he was named after St. Bernard.

 

Peter and Paul have a common name day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Saints_Peter_and_Paul


As it happens, my second Christian name is Paul.
So I could celebrate the 29th of June also.

 

In Bretten, a small town near here, the Peter-and-Paul-Day is a great festival.

More about it: https://www.unesco.de/en/peter-and-paul-festival-bretten

 

In France, name days are an even bigger thing than here in Germany.
Called "fête" there.

 

Here now are the name days for the 15th of July:

Anne-Marie
Answer
Bernhard
Bonaventura
Ceslaus
Egon
Gumbert
Rudolf
Waldemar