A baptismal name for a boy
Isaac
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Isaac
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Righteous IsaacMarch 25Son of promise of Abraham, father of Jacob, and second patriarch of Israel.
Venerable Isaac the SyrianJanuary 28Syrian ascetic writer of the seventh century, bishop of Nineveh, author of spiritual homilies.
Venerable Isaac of DalmatiaMarch 22Monk and confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery in Constantinople, who died in 383.
Venerable Isaac of the Kiev CavesFebruary 14Recluse of the Kiev Caves Lavra, who died in 1090, tormented by demonic temptations in his cell.- Venerable Martyr Isaac Bobrakov of OptinaDecember 26Archimandrite, the last abbot of old Optina, who died a martyr on 8 January 1938 at the Tesnitsa firing range.
- Venerable Isaac of OptinaAugust 22Schema-archimandrite, abbot of Optina and one of its fourteen elders, born in Kursk, who died in 1894.
- Venerable Isaac GolovinSeptember 11Hieromonk born in 1825 in the Voronezh region, who died in 1903 at Sviatohirsk; a local saint of the Ukrainian Church.
- Venerable Isaac of SpoletoApril 12A Syrian monk who came to Italy and lived as an ascetic near Spoleto, dying around 552.
- Hieromartyr Isaac of Beth SeleuciaMay 18A cleric of Beth Seleucia in Persia, who died a martyr for Christ.
- Martyr Isaac of TheodosiopolisSeptember 16Martyr of Theodosiopolis, now Erzurum, who suffered for Christ.
- Venerable Martyr Isaac of SinaiJanuary 14A monk of Sinai, commemorated as a martyr in the Orthodox calendar.
- Saint Isaac of CyprusSeptember 21A hierarch of Cyprus, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
Questions
The name day of Isaac is March 25, the feast of Righteous Isaac. It is also kept on January 28, March 22, February 14, December 26, August 22, September 11, April 12, May 18.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Isaac, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Isaac is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Righteous Isaac as patron.