A baptismal name for a boy
Jason
4 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Jason
Apostle Jason of ThessalonicaApril 28Jewish convert to Christianity named in Acts, who received the Apostle Paul into his home at Thessalonica.
Martyr Jason of RomeMarch 19A martyr of the circle of Saints Chrysanthus and Daria, put to death at Rome under Emperor Numerian.- Saint JasonOctober 12Bishop of Damascus, honored as a hierarch in the Greek synaxarion.
- Saint JasonJuly 12A saint honored in the West, of whom little is known.
Questions
The name day of Jason is April 28, the feast of Apostle Jason of Thessalonica. It is also kept on March 19, October 12, July 12.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 4 saints named Jason, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Jason is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Apostle Jason of Thessalonica as patron.