Saints' Days August 4-10
STILL ACCEPTING YOUR LOCAL TALLIES BELOW IN THE INTERNATIONAL POLL: CALLING YOUR TOP 20! THROUGH MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2008. This week the saints’ calendar was wrought with names like Hormisdas,...
View ArticleSaints' Days August 11- 24
Remarkably contemporary the names this week! Magnus, Helena, Beatrix, Caspar, and Jane all have made an appearance in my world of the under six set. I was shocked to find a Blane, and the simple Ebba...
View ArticleName Days for Days… August 25- October 11
This week’s– ahem, two months worth of saints’ names provides a lot of inspiration, at least for me. Many of these ancient relics sound shockingly modern. Some, like Linus and Phoebe, are already...
View ArticleSaints' Days March 1-March 7
For newcomers to You Can’t Call It “It”, you may not be aware that I used to post saints’ name days religiously once a week. Old timers will recall that I fell out of the habit and would then have up...
View ArticleSaints March 8-March 14
I went on the hunt for crowd pleasers as last week’s list went over so well. What I found were Matilda, Serafina, Julian and Frances– all of which are on our radar already. Consider this the saints’...
View ArticleSaints March 15-March 21
We’re graced by the presence of one of the world’s most reknowned saints this week, St. Patrick, for whom “we’re all Irish” on one day a year. I wish there were days when we were all Greek, all...
View ArticleSaints March 22-April 5
Modern sounding 8 and 10 point letters come tidily packaged in venerable saints’ names this week: Zeno, Octavian, Felix all imminently usable. For an edgy hip choice for your little girl, why not Musa...
View ArticleSaints April 5-26
Casilda. Macaria. Brychan. Ruadan. This list is full of new discoveries for me, and I hope for you as well. If you find “this week’s” saints’ post to be a little long, it is because I’ve been a...
View ArticleSaints June 27- July 3
Time for some high culture up in this joint! The saints are back. June 27 Cyril- from the Greek kyrios meaning “Lord”; the outspoken archbishop of Constantinople in the fifth century. St. Cyril was...
View ArticleSaints July 18-24
From Ireland to Egypt, Sweden to Spain, this week’s group of Saints draws from a multitude of cultures and languages. I could choose many from this list by altering the forms to suit our family:...
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