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Sigismund was his baptismal name; Sigismund's pagan Lithuanian birth name is unknown.
His baptismal name Josiah was chosen from the biblical king who had destroyed the idol and restored the people's allegiance to God.
In Rome, he was baptised by Pope Sergius I on the Saturday before Easter (according to Bede) taking the baptismal name Peter, and died not long afterwards, "still in his white garments".
Supervía was born in Barcelona to an old Andalusian family and given the baptismal name of María de la Concepción Supervía Pascual.
'Jacob' was his baptismal name; 'Dionysius' he assumed when consecrated to the bishopric.
He justified his claim showing the name Paulleli as a combination of Greek Paulus and Hebrew Eli;thus, meaning God supplies the inadequacy.He also claimed that, at an age of 13, he made a blood covenant with God, who exchanged a yodh for the he in his baptismal name;thereafter, renaming his original name from Holiger to Oliger(Olliger), to connote
When Orderic reached the legal age for profession as a monk, his monastic superiors gave him the religious name of Vitalis (after a member of the legendary Theban Legion of Christian martyrs) because they found a difficulty in pronouncing his unusual baptismal name.