Chinese 
English 
Dutch 
Arabic 
Spanish 
Portuguese 
Russian 
French 
Italian 
German 
Japanese 
Continue reading with a subscription
Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.
Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.
摘要
- Natalia is not in the Bible. It comes from Latin natalis, “relating to birth, birthday”, which the early Church gave to the Nativity — so the name means a child of Christmas.
- Natalie is the French form; Noel and Noelle carry the same idea through another word.
- Saint Natalia was the wife of Adrian of Nicomedia, the Roman officer converted by watching the Christians he was guarding. She went into the prison and stayed with the condemned until her husband died.
- A saint’s feast is traditionally the day of their death, and the Church calls it their dies natalis — their birthday. Because God was born, dying became a kind of birth.
- The first Christmas was a long journey, no room, animals, and a flight into Egypt. Scripture describes a light appearing where people walked in darkness, which means the darkness was real.
参考书目（点击显示）
Sources: Behind the Name entries for Natalia and Natalie (Latinate form of Natalie, from Latin natalis, “relating to birth, birthday”; the wife of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia, venerated in the Orthodox Church); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (John 1:14; Isaiah 9:2; Luke 2:1-7; Matthew 2:13-15).
