A baptismal name for a girl
Elizabeth
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Elizabeth
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Righteous ElizabethSeptember 5Wife of the priest Zechariah and mother of John the Baptist, a relative of the Virgin Mary.
Venerable Martyr Elizabeth FeodorovnaJuly 5German princess, widow of Grand Duke Sergei, a nun and founder of a convent, killed at Alapayevsk in 1918.
Right-Believing Elizabeth HulevychUkrainian noblewoman and philanthropist of Lutsk in Volhynia, who died in 1642 and is venerated as a saint.
Martyr Elizabeth KuranovaOctober 8Raised in an orphanage, widowed when her husband was shot in 1930, she herself was shot at Butovo in 1937.- Venerable Elizabeth of PasăreaJune 5Schemanun of Pasărea Monastery, born Rodica Lazăr in 1970, who reposed in 2014.
- Saint ElizabethAugust 23A saint commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church.
- Venerable Elizabeth the WonderworkerApril 24A holy woman honored as a wonderworker.
- Martyr Elizabeth of AdrianopleOctober 22A martyr of Adrianople, put to death for her faith in Christ.
- Venerable Martyr Elizabeth YaryginaAugust 30A Russian nun who died a martyr for her faith in Christ during the communist persecution.
- Venerable Elizabeth of ConstantinopleApril 24A venerable nun of Constantinople, commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church.
- Martyr Elizabeth KrymovaOctober 18A Russian woman put to death for her faith in Christ in 1937, during the communist persecution.
- Confessor Elizabeth RumyantsevaJuly 31A Russian woman who confessed the faith, commemorated in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Questions
The name day of Elizabeth is September 5, the feast of Righteous Elizabeth. It is also kept on July 5, October 8, June 5, August 23, April 24, October 22, August 30, October 18.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Elizabeth, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Elizabeth is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Righteous Elizabeth as patron.