Carlotta's Name Day

4th November

Carlotta, the name has a description or meaning which is from Old German, 'man'

Carlotta has a Name day of 4th November, please check our history page to find out how this was derived

This description represents the Female usage of the name.

This name is a variant of the original name Charles

St Charles is a patron saint of the following:

Symbols are often associated with Saints, it often helped in the middle ages when people were unable to read thus Charles has the following symbols associated

Historically Famous Carlottas

We still tend to think of saints and martyrs as medieval and white - or even Roman and white - whereas, in fact, this century and a half has seen more Christian martyrdoms than ever before, most of them in Third World countries. One of these, Charles Lwanga, was burned to death in 1886. He was one of many teenage boys kept by Mwanga, King of Uganda, in an 'alternative' harem. Charles became a Christian and converted 22 of his friends, whereupon they were transported to Namugongo and executed. He is remembered on 3 June and honoured as a patron of African boys. The film Black Robe gave another side to the story of missionary stupidity and Amerindian sensitivity; Charles Garnier, a French priest who was murdered by the Iroquois while he was living and working in a Huron village in 1649, might have been the inspiration for it. His feast day is the 26 September. St Charles Borromeo, however, after whom so many of the other St Charles were named was indeed medieval and white. After the rather scandalous start of being born to a Medici and a Borromeo, and becoming the owner of a rich abbey and then a cardinal by nepotism (literally - the gift given by his uncle, Pope Pius IV) before he was 23, Charles became a priest and bishop in his own right. Although he had a stammer, he preached tirelessly, and set about reforming the Church so rigorously that a monk of the Humilitati (an Order which was losing money through these reforms), tried to assassinate him. When the plague broke out, he spent his energy and his personal fortune caring for the sick, and he also founded Sunday Schools or 'the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine'. If he had one indulgence, apparently it was the comparatively innocent one - at least by his ancestors' standards - for playing chess