Rob's Name Day

29th April

Rob, the name has a description or meaning which is from Old German, 'bright fame'

Rob has a Name day of 29th April, please check our history page to find out how this was derived

This description represents the Male usage of the name.

This name is a variant of the original name Robert

There is also an alternative celebration date of 17th September for this Name day and represents different religious interpretations or different festival days for Saints

St Robert is a patron saint of the following:

Historically Famous Robs

There is a melancholy list of Roberts among the English Catholic martyrs of the Reformation, of whom the poet Robert Southwell is the most famous, but there are the happier lives of St Robert of Molesme and St Robert Bellarmine to recount. St Robert of Molesme was an eleventh-century monk who founded a monastery in Burgundy at Molesme, but who eventually became one of the co-founders of the great Cistertian monastery at Citeaux. He was the Abbot there for 18 months, but then returned to Molesme, where he ruled as Abbot until his death at the age of 84. His feast is celebrated on 29 April. Robert Bellarmine was one of the greatest Jesuit scholars of the Renaissance, and may take some credit for being sympathetic to (although not completely persuaded by) Galileo during the scientist's persecution by the Church. His feast day is 17 September.