A baptismal name for a boy
Pius
3 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Pius
Saint Pius IJuly 11Bishop of Rome in the mid second century, who opposed the heresies of Marcion and the Gnostics.- Martyr PiusJanuary 19A martyr remembered in the synaxarion of the Greek Church.
- Saint Pius of AlexandriaSeptember 8A name entered in the martyrology attributed to Jerome, on 8 September; few details survive.
Questions
The name day of Pius is July 11, the feast of Saint Pius I. It is also kept on January 19, September 8.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 3 saints named Pius, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Pius is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Pius I as patron.