A baptismal name for a girl
Maria
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Maria
Passion-Bearer MariaJuly 4Third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, killed with her family at Yekaterinburg in 1918.
Venerable Martyr Maria of ParisJuly 20Russian nun in France, a poet and member of the French Resistance, who died at Ravensbrück in 1945..jpg)
Right-Believing Maria BrâncoveanuAugust 16Wife of the holy prince Constantine Brâncoveanu, princess of Wallachia.
Venerable Martyr Maria of GatchinaApril 4Nun of the Josephite movement, born at Saint Petersburg in 1874, who died a martyr in 1932.
Fool-for-Christ Maria of DiveevoAugust 26The third of the three blessed ones canonized at Diveevo, born about 1870 and died in 1931.
Right-Believing Maria ShvarnovnaNovember 8First wife of Vsevolod the Big Nest, mother of at least twelve children, a nun under the name Marfa; died in 1205.- New Martyr Maria DanilovaDecember 30Born at Yukhnov to a family of weavers, sentenced in 1937 to ten years in a camp; she died in the camp in 1946.
- Venerable Martyr Maria GroshevaMarch 7A woman monastic martyr of the Russian Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Confessor Maria KorepovaAugust 19A woman confessor of the Christian faith in a time of persecution.
- Venerable Martyr Maria LaktionovaDecember 26A woman monastic martyr of the Russian Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
Venerable Martyr Maria Mamontova-ShashinaSeptember 19A woman monastic martyr of the Russian Church, who died in 1938.- Venerable Martyr Maria NosovaApril 27A woman monastic martyr of the Russian Church, who died in 1938.
Questions
The name day of Maria is July 4, the feast of Passion-Bearer Maria. It is also kept on July 20, August 16, April 4, August 26, November 8, December 30, March 7, August 19.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Maria, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Maria is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Passion-Bearer Maria as patron.