Tammy's Name Day

21st December

Tammy, the name has a description or meaning which is from the Aramaic, 'a twin'

Tammy has a Name day of 21st December, 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 Thomas

St Thomas 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 Thomas has the following symbols associated

Historically Famous Tammys

Many St Thomases take their name from the apostle who is often called 'Doubting Thomas' from the story in John's Gospel (John 20:24-8). John also recalls him as the apostle of the heroic or fatalistic comment in 11:16 - 'Let us also go, that we may die with him' when Jesus was preparing to go to Bethany, where Lazarus had died. It is also John who calls him 'Didymus' or 'the twin', although we do not know who his twin was. Thomas' recognition of the risen Christ ('My Lord and my God!' John 20:28) has become a powerful meditation prayer for many Christians. That is as much as we know of Thomas, the apostle, although a much later book called The Acts of Thomas (written in the second and fourth centuries by members of sects, such as the Gnostics) describes his founding of the church in Kerala in Southern India.

Thomas a Becket (1118-1170), the statesman and archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered by Henry II, was the most important English saint in the Middle Ages, and his shrine became the most important centre for pilgrims after Rome and Santiago de Compostela. Although he was clearly similar to a politician in his obstinacy and ambition, he took his consecration as archbishop very seriously, and became known for his devotion, austerity and defence of the Church against the King. His help is invoked for blindness. Thomas More (1478-1535), who was beheaded by Henry VIII, also refused to compromise his Christian beliefs for political expediency. He is another English saint loved for his wide learning and humanity. He is the patron of civil servants and lawyers. The other very well-known St Thomas is, of course, the great theologian, St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), whose symbol is a star, and who was, himself, the star of medieval science, theology and prayer. Naturally, he is the patron of scholars, especially theologians. It is reasonable, therefore, that he should also be the patron of all pencil maker