December 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 25 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – December 27

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.
 * Commemoration of Saint Joseph, King David and Saint James.

Saints

 * Saint Archelaus, Bishop of Harran in Northern Mesopotamia (c. 280)
 * Saint Zeno (Zenon), Bishop of Maiuma (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)