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May 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 27

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 8 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

  • Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus (possibly Cleopas) of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)
  • Martyrs Abercius and Helen, children of Apostle Alphaeus (1st century)
  • Martyr Julius, Roman soldier, by beheading, at Dorostolum in Mysia (Asia Minor) (302)
  • Saint Synesius, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus, Wonderworker (c. 5th century)
  • Venerable John of Psichaita the Confessor, of Constantinople (c. 825) (see also May 7)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Hieromartyr Zacharias, Bishop of Vienne, suffered under Trajan (106)
  • Hieromartyr Simitrius priest, and 22 other martyrs, who suffered under Antoninus Pius, at Rome (159)
  • Saint Eleutherius, Pope of Rome (189)
  • Saints Fugatius (Fagan) and Damian (Deruvian), sent by Pope Eleutherius to England to preach the Gospel (2nd century)
  • Martyr Priscus, a Roman legionary officer, and a great multitude of other Christians of Besançon, near Auxerre (272)
  • Martyrs Felicissimus, Heraclius, and Paulinus, at Todi in Umbria (303)
  • Martyr Quadratus, a martyr in North Africa.
  • Saint Bécán, a hermit near Cork in Ireland in the time of St Columba; founder of Kilbeggan, Westmeath, worked in a monastery there (6th century)
  • Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England (605)
  • Saint Oduvald, a noble who became a monk and later Abbot of Melrose Abbey in Scotland (698)
  • Saint Regintrudis, fourth Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey near Salzburg in Austria.
  • Saint Guinizo, born in Spain, became a monk at Montecassino in Italy (c. 1050)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • New Martyr George of Sofia (George the New, George the Serbian) (1515)
  • New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica, the former Dervish, beheaded at Smyrna (1794)
  • Saint Innocent, Bishop of Cherson (1857) (see also May 25)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyrs Milan Banjac and Milan Golubovic, of Drvar, Serbia (1941-1945)

    • Other commemorations

  • Translation of the relics of Saint Bertilla (692), Abbess of Chelles.
  • Uncovering of the relics (1521) of Venerable Macarius, Abbot of Kolyazin (1483)
  • Translation of the relics (1534) of New Martyr George of Kratovo and Sofia (1515)
  • The Icon of the Mother of God of Seligersk-Vladimir (16th century)

    • References

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