A baptismal name for a boy
Vasily
8 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Vasily
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Hieromartyr Vasily ZelentsovFebruary 4Bishop of Priluki and vicar of the Poltava diocese, who died a martyr in Moscow in 1930.
Saint Vasily the BarefootRussian wanderer of the late 19th century, loved for his charitable deeds, who died in 1933.- Hieromartyr Vasily Konstantinov-GrishinMarch 1A priest who suffered martyrdom in 1943; glorified among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
- Hieromartyr Vasily KedrenovskyMay 13A hieromartyr commemorated by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who died for the faith in 1937.
- Hieromartyr Vasily TerletskyMay 13A priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, killed for the faith in 1938.
- Hieromartyr Vasily KharchenkoMay 13A hieromartyr commemorated by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who died for the faith in 1938.
- Hieromartyr Vasily AgatitskyOctober 4A hieromartyr of the Russian Church who gave his life for Christ in 1918.
- Hieromartyr Vasily VakhninA hieromartyr killed in 1937 in the Verkhnodniprovsk district; locally glorified (Eparchy of Kamianske, 2020).
Questions
The name day of Vasily is February 4, the feast of Hieromartyr Vasily Zelentsov. It is also kept on March 1, May 13, October 4.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 8 saints named Vasily, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Vasily is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Hieromartyr Vasily Zelentsov as patron.