Name days on 1 December
On 1 December, the name day is celebrated by people named Areti, Nahum and Filaretos. Feasts and commemorations of the day: Commemoration of the Prophet Nahum · Commemoration of St Philaret the Merciful.
Celebrating
3 namesSaints and feasts of the day
2 feastsCommemoration of the Prophet Nahum
One of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament, called the Elkoshite, whose book foretells the fall of Nineveh.
Commemoration of St Philaret the Merciful
An 8th-century landowner from Amnia in Paphlagonia, renowned for his boundless almsgiving, whose granddaughter Maria married Emperor Constantine VI in 788.
About this day
In 2026, 1 December is a Tuesday.
Communities that follow the old (Julian) calendar commemorate this day's saints on 14 December of the civil calendar.