Male name
When is Efsevios’ name day?
Ευσέβιος · Efsevios
Main name day
Venerable Eusebius
The Greek name Ευσέβιος (Efsevios) is celebrated on 15 February.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Venerable Eusebius the Hermit (of Asikha)5th centuryA 5th-century Syrian ascetic who lived in a roofless stone enclosure on a mountain near Asikha and died at the age of ninety in a nearby monastery.Eusebius lived in the 5th century and, out of love for God, took up monastic life. He first became a monk at a monastery and then withdrew to a mountain near the town of Asikha, where he lived an ascetic life inside a roofless stone enclosure, fasting so strictly that his body was reduced to skin and bone.Read more
- Saint Eusebius the Hieromartyr, Bishop of Samosata4th centuryBishop of Samosata who resisted Arianism, was exiled and, according to tradition, was killed around 379 by a roof tile thrown at him by an Arian woman.Eusebius was bishop of Samosata during the turbulent years when the Arian heresy troubled the Church. When Emperor Constantius II, a supporter of the Arians, demanded that Eusebius hand over the official record of the election of the Orthodox bishop Meletius of Antioch so it could be destroyed, Eusebius refused even when threatened with the loss of his right hand.Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Efsevios, Evsevios, Eusebios
- English equivalents
- Eusebius
- In Greek
- Ευσέβιος