Female name
When is Anthousa’s name day?
Ανθούσα · Anthousa
Main name day
Saint Anthousa and her twelve servants
The Greek name Ανθούσα (Anthousa) is celebrated on 22 February.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Holy Martyr Anthousa and her twelve servantsA martyr who, according to the Synaxarion, was put to the sword together with her twelve servants; no other details of her life survive.Read more
- Saint Anthousa, daughter of Emperor Constantine V8th–9th centuryDaughter of the iconoclast emperor Constantine V who declined marriage, gave her wealth to charity and became a nun in Constantinople.Anthousa was the daughter of the iconoclast emperor Constantine V and his wife Eudokia. Despite her father's pressure to marry, she remained unmarried and devoted herself to works of charity, unwilling to take a husband who shared her family's iconoclast views.Read more
- Saint Anthusa of Seleucia3rd centuryThird-century ascetic from Seleucia who was baptised by Bishop Athanasius at Tarsus and lived for twenty-three years in the desert.Anthusa, the daughter of wealthy pagan parents from Seleucia in Syria, wanted to meet Bishop Athanasius, who was preaching at Tarsus in Cilicia. She persuaded her mother to take her there, with two of her servants, on the pretext of visiting her old nurse; there Athanasius baptised her and tonsured her a nun.Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Anthousa, Anthoussa
- English equivalents
- Anthusa
- In Greek
- Ανθούσα