Name days are a tradition of attaching personal names to each day of the year, and celebrating the association of particular days with those for whom that day is named. It is common in large parts of
Europe. The tradition originates from the
Christian church calendar and the tradition to name children after
saints, although in many countries there is no longer a connection to the church.
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The calendar is a traditional
Christian method of organizing a
liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more
saints, and referring to the day as that saint's feast day. The system arose from the very early Christian custom of annual commemoration of
martyrs on the dates of their deaths (Dies Mortis, day of death, opposite of Dies Natalis). As the number of recognized saints increased during
Late Antiquity and roughly the first half of the
Middle Ages, eventually every day of the year had at least one saint who was commemorated on that date. Eventually, some saints were moved to another day in some traditions, or completely removed; thus, some saints do have more than one day.
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