Saints Names
Saints' names would have been part of the Russian naming pool throughout period, indeed even unto the present day - by Russian Orthodox Church doctrine.
From the collection of Russian name precedents:
| François la Flamme | 2001.10 | There was some discussion about the registerability of this name, since the dated examples for the given name and the byname have a temporal disparity of approximately 1400 years. The documentation for Turvon references a martyr who was a contemporary of the apostles. Given this information, the name Turvon falls into the category of a saint's name. As discussed in the September 2001 cover letter, a number of cultures had a tradition of giving their children the names of saints. Therefore, it is possible that this name remained in use long after Turvon's death, making this name registerable despite the temporal disparity in the name as documented. [Turvon Kuznetsov, 10/01, A-Atlantia] |
Sources for possible Period Russian Saints' Names:
Wickenden, of course. He has marked many names as saints names, but not all of the saints names are clearly marked. Any name sourced there from [Lev] is also a saints name, since Wickenden was referencing Eve Levin's unpublished research on medieval calendar names.
The Manual of Eastern Orthodox Prayers has a calendar of feast days in the back, which indicates which saints are old enough to have been venerated in the Middle Ages. The vast majority of them are also found in Wickenden, albeit under the Russian spelling. I have not found all of them in Wickenden, partly because I have not been able to determine the Russian form of some of them.
Medieval Slavic Menologies On-line (calendars of saints) - http://menology.obdurodon.org/ and the properly searchable version is here:
http://menology.obdurodon.org/search.php
Index of Christian Art - from Lois Drewer's Calendar of Saints in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescos - index of saints in Byzantine art with sources! - http://ica.princeton.edu/drewer/intro.php
I have a big database of Russian calendar names (aka saints names) that I keep updating.
The Orthodox Church of America (OCA) Feasts & Saints - http://oca.org/fs
Sources for possible Period Western Saints' Names:
Saints.SQPN.com - formerly known has the Patron Saints Index is a wonderful source for information about Roman Catholic saints with short biographies of many of them. http://saints.sqpn.com/
Wikipedia is also fairly useful for finding information about a given saint.