A baptismal name for a girl
Catherine
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Catherine
Great Martyr Catherine of AlexandriaNovember 25Learned maiden of Alexandria who confessed Christ before the emperor and was killed in the fourth century.
New Martyr Catherine SchneiderBaltic German tutor at the court of Tsar Nicholas II, killed at Perm in September 1918.
New Martyr Catherine of PetrogradDecember 4Born at Saint Petersburg in 1875 into a large family, died at Borovichi in 1937, among the New Martyrs.
Venerable Martyr Catherine of SimbirskFebruary 4Nun at the Savior Convent in Simbirsk from 1890 to 1918, a peasant's daughter; died at Ulyanovsk in 1938.
Venerable Martyr Catherine KonstantinovaMarch 7Novice of the Sorrows Convent in Moscow, shot at the Butovo firing range in 1938.
Venerable Martyr Catherine CherkasovaJanuary 23Novice born in 1892 in the Volokolamsk region, shot at the Butovo firing range in 1938; canonized in 2001.- Martyr CatherineJune 11Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
- Martyr CatherineJune 11Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
- Martyr CatherineJune 11Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
- Martyr CatherineJune 11Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
- New Martyr Catherine RoutiMother of two, fatally wounded in 1927 at Mandra when she shielded the priest Christopher Psalidas with her body.
- Fool-for-Christ Catherine Malkov-PaninaApril 22A fool for Christ, commemorated in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Questions
The name day of Catherine is November 25, the feast of Great Martyr Catherine of Alexandria. It is also kept on December 4, February 4, March 7, January 23, June 11, April 22.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Catherine, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Catherine is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Great Martyr Catherine of Alexandria as patron.