Male name
When is Makarios’ name day?
Μακάριος · Makarios
Main name day
Venerable Macarius of Egypt and Macarius of Alexandria
The Greek name Μακάριος (Makarios) is celebrated on 19 January.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Venerable Macarius of Egypt (the Great)4th centuryAn Egyptian ascetic (c. 300–391), a disciple of Anthony the Great, who lived for decades in the desert of Scetis and is counted among the great fathers of monasticism.Macarius was born around 300 in a village in Lower Egypt. As a young man he married at his parents' wish, but was soon widowed, and after they too died he distributed his wealth to the poor and withdrew to the desert to live as an ascetic.Read more
- Saints Therapon, Macarius, Marcius and Marcia the MartyrsMartyrs whose memory is preserved in the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople, with no known details of their lives.Read more
Variants and other forms
- Other Greek forms and diminutives
- Μακάρης
- In Latin letters
- Makarios, Macarios
- English equivalents
- Macarius
- In Greek
- Μακάριος