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

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 8 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

  • Martyrs Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia, and 23 companions (306)
  • Martyrs Atticus and Sissinius, by the sword.
  • Martyr Adrian, son of Roman Emperor Probus, at Nicomedia (320)
  • Saint Gelasius.
  • Saint Maximus, Archbishop of Jerusalem (347)
  • Venerable Tithoes of the Thebaid (4th century), disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.
  • Monk Ioasaph, Prince of India (4th century) (see also: November 19)
  • Venerable Ibestion the Confessor, Egyptian ascetic (c. 450)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Zephyrinus, Pope of Rome from 199 to 217, who defended Orthodox Christology against heresies (217)
  • Martyrs Irenaeus and Abundius (258) (see also: August 13)
  • Saint Secundus, a soldier of the Theban Legion martyred near Ventimiglia in Italy (3rd century)
  • Saint Alexander of Bergamo (c. 303)
  • Saint Ninian, Apostle to the Southern Picts (432)
  • Saint Rufinus, Bishop of Capua (5th century)
  • Saint Elias of Syracuse, a monk who became Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily (660)
  • Saint Felix of Pistoia, a holy hermit in Pistoia in Tuscany in Italy (9th century)
  • Saint Pandwyna (Pandionia), a holy virgin born in Ireland (c. 904)
  • Saint Victor (Vitores), a priest in Spain martyred by the Moors in the ninth or tenth century.

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Zer-Jacob, missionary of Ethiopia.
  • Saint Adrian of Uglich (after 1504), disciple of St. Paisius of Uglich.
  • Saint Adrian of Ondrusov, founder of Ondrusov Monastery, Karelia (1549)
  • Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (16th century)
  • Saint Maria (Fedina) of Diveyevo, Fool-for-Christ (1931)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Peter Levlev, Priest (1918)
  • George Kossov of Orlov (1928)
  • New Hieromartyr Nectarius (Trezvinsky), Bishop of Yaransk (1937)
  • New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Victor Ellansky, Priest (1937)
  • New Martyrs Demetrius Morozov and Peter Bordan (1937)

    • Other commemorations

  • Commemoration of the Meeting of the "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1395)
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Virgin of Tenderness" of the Pskov Caves (1524).
  • Finding of the relics (1748) of St. Bassian, Schemamonk of Alatyr Monastery (c. 1698)
  • Miraculous Self-Renewal of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in the hands of Righteous Abbess Rufina, in Harbin, Manchuria (1925)

    • References

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