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December 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Dec. 25 – Eastern Orthodox Church calendar – Dec. 27

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

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

Feasts

  • Second Day of the Feast of the Nativity.
  • Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos.
  • Commemoration of the Flight into Egypt of the Most Blessed Theotokos.

    • Saints

  • Saint Archelaus, Bishop of Harran in Northern Mesopotamia (c. 280)
  • Saint Zeno (Zenon), Bishop of Majuma (the port of Gaza), in Palestine (4th century)
  • Venerable Evaristus (Evarestos), Monk of the Studion Monastery (825)
  • Hieromartyr Euthymius of Sardis (Euthymios the Confessor), Bishop of Sardis (840)
  • Venerable Constantine, Monk of Synnada, the former Jew (9th century)

    • Pre-schism Western saints

  • Saint Dionysius, Pope of Rome (268)
  • Saint Marinus, the son of a senator in Rome, he was martyred by beheading under Numerian (283)
  • Saint Zosimus, a Greek Pope of Rome (418)
  • Saint Tathai (Tathan, Tathaeus, Athaeus), Abbot of Llantathan (early 6th century)
  • Saint Jarlath, first Bishop of Tuam, founder of the monastery of Cluain Fois, near Tuam (Ireland) (c. 540)
  • Saint Theodore the Sacrist, a holy man and contemporary of St Gregory the Great in Rome (6th century)
  • Saint Amaethlu (Maethlu); a church founded by him in the village of Llanfaethlu in Anglesey, Wales, is named after him (6th century)

    • Post-schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Nicodemus of Tismana, Romania (1406)
  • New Hieromartyr Constantius the Russian, Priest at Constantinople, by beheading (1743)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Demetrius, Priests (1918)
  • New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Michael, and Nicholas, Priests, and Michael, Deacon (1930)
  • New Hieromartyr Leonidas (Antoshchenko), Bishop of Mariisk (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Basil (Mazurenko), Hieromonk (1937)
  • Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1937)
  • New Martyr Augusta (Zashchuk), Schema-Nun (1937)
  • Virgin-martyrs Anthisa and Makaria (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Andrew, Bishop of Ufa (1937)
  • New Martyr, Valentina, (1937)
  • Venernable New Hieromartyr Isaac II (Bobrikov), Archimandrite of Optina Monastery (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Gregory, Priest (1938)
  • Virgin-martyrs Augusta and Mary (1938)
  • Martyr Agrippina (1938)

    • Other commemorations

  • Repose of Abbot Barlaam of Valaam and Optina Monasteries (1849)
  • Repose of Archimandrite Irenarchus (Rosetti) of Mt. Tabor (1859)
  • Repose of Elder Serapheim Savvaitis, Hegumen of the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified (2003)

    • Icons

  • Icon of the "Mother of God of "Vilna" ("Vilen-Ostrabramsk", "Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn").
  • Icon of the Mother of God "the Three Joys".
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Merciful" (Greek: Eleousa).
  • Icon of the Mother of God "the Blessed Womb" or "Barlovsk" (1392)
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Baibuzsk" (Baibuskaya) (1852)

    • References

    December 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
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