April 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Updated on Dec 16, 2023

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Apr. 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 27

All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 9 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 26th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 13.

Saints

Martyrs Cyril, Chindeu, and Tasie of Axiopolis (c. 304)

Hieromartyr Basil of Amasea, Bishop of Amasea (322)

Righteous Virgin-martyr Glaphyra of Nicomedia (c. 322)

Saints Andrew and Anatolius (5th century), disciples of St. Euthymius the Great.

Saint Justa, nun.

Venerable Nestor.

Saint Leo of Samos (Leontos), Bishop of Samos, Wonderworker (9th century)

Peter of Braga (Peter of Rates), first Bishop and martyr of Braga in Portugal (c. 60).

Saint Marcellinus, a Pope of Rome, who may have been martyred in repentance for his previous errors (304) (see also: June 7 in the East)

Saint Exuperantia, a saint whose relics are venerated in Troyes in France (c. 380).

Saint Lucidius of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy.

Saint Clarentius (Clarent), successor of St Etherius as Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 620)

Saint Trudpert, a hermit, possibly from Ireland, who lived in Münstethal in Germany (c. 644)

Saint Richarius (Riquier), Abbot, Confessor, in Picardy (645)

Venerable George of Cyprus, first Igumen of the Monastery of St. John Chrysostomos, near Koutsovendis, in the Kyrenia District of Cyprus (1091)

Venerable Calantius of Tamassos (Kalandios), one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th century)

Saint Stephen of Perm, Bishop of Perm (1396)

New Martyrs of Novo Selo ("Holy Trinity" Novoselska convent), Bulgaria (1876)

New martyrs John Pankov (priest), and his children Nicholas Pankov, and Peter Pankov, new martyrs of Orlov (1918)

Translation of the sacred relics of Saint Ioannicius of Devic, Serbia (1430)

Repose of Schema-nun Agnia (Chizhikov) of Akulovo (1984)

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