 The linguistic data attest that first Biblical names started to be used in Aukštaitija as early as the 11th century.The earliest stratum of such names originates from Old Church Slavonic; they were borrowed by Eastern Orthodoxy in their Byzantine versions.Examples of such names are "Antanas" (St. Anthony), "Povilas" or "Paulius" (St. Paul), "Andrius" (St. Andrew) and "Jurgis" (St. George).