Angel Day November 24, 2024
We'll tell you who celebrates Angel's Day today according to the new church calendar, whose name days are celebrated in the old way, and how to congratulate the birthday people.
Each of us has Angel Day – the day of remembrance of the patron saint whose name a person bears. There may be several such days in the church calendar, but the name day is considered to be the date closest to the birthday. That is, in one month a person can have both a birthday and his name day.
November 24th is Angel Day Grigory, Evgeniy, Ivan, Mark, Mikhail, Alexander, Alexey, Ekaterina. According to the old style – name day Anton, Victor, Evgeniy, Maxim, Afanasy, Stepan, Fedor, Yakov and Stefania.
Why are name days celebrated in the new and old style?
In 2023, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) switched to a new calendar, in which the days of remembrance…
