Male name
When is Marinos’ name day?
Μαρίνος · Marinos
Main name day
Saint Marinos Vaanes
The Greek name Μαρίνος (Marinos) is celebrated on 2 June.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint Marinos VaanesMonk from Constantinople, brought up in Bizye in Thrace, who became known for his almsgiving and strict asceticism.The life of Saint Marinos is not recorded in the old synaxaria, but is preserved by the scholar Gedeon in the Byzantine Calendar. He was born in Constantinople, the son of the droungarios Nikephoros and Maria, and was raised piously at Bizye in Thrace.Read more
- Saint Marina the Great MartyrGreat martyr from Antioch in Pisidia, known in the West as Saint Margaret.According to tradition, Marina was born in Antioch of Pisidia, the daughter of a pagan priest. She confessed her faith as a young girl and was martyred in the late third or early fourth century.Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Marinos
- English equivalents
- Marinus
- In Greek
- Μαρίνος