A baptismal name for a boy
Felician
5 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Felician
Hieromartyr Felician of FolignoJanuary 24Martyr bishop and patron of Foligno in Italy, who died around 250.- Martyr FelicianJanuary 30A martyr commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Martyr Felician of VienneNovember 19Martyr of Vienne in Gaul, remembered in the early martyrologies.
- Saint Felician of MauritaniaMarch 18A name entered in the martyrology attributed to Jerome, on 18 March; few details survive.
- Martyr Felician of CórdobaA martyr venerated at Córdoba in Spain, from the first Christian centuries.
Questions
The name day of Felician is January 24, the feast of Hieromartyr Felician of Foligno. It is also kept on January 30, November 19, March 18.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 5 saints named Felician, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Felician is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Hieromartyr Felician of Foligno as patron.