January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 25 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 27

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

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

Saints

 * Martyrs Ananias the priest, Peter the prison guard, and seven soldiers, in Phoenicia (295)
 * The Holy Two Martys of Phrygia.
 * Venerable Ammon of Egypt (350), disciple of St. Anthony the Great.
 * Venerable Symeon "the Ancient" of Mount Sinai (ca. 390)
 * Saint Paula of Rome (Paula of Palestine), monastic foundress in Palestine (404)
 * Venerable Gabriel, Abbot of the monastery of Saint Stephanos in Jerusalem (ca. 490)
 * Venerable Xenophon and his wife Mary, and their two sons Sts. Arcadius and John, of Constantinople (6th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Conon, Bishop and monastic founder on the Isle of Man (648)
 * Saint Theofrid (Theofroy), a monk at Luxeuil in France who became Abbot of Corbie, and a Bishop (ca. 690)
 * Saint Athanasius, honoured as a bishop in Sorrento in the south of Italy.
 * Saint Alphonsus of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga in Spain (9th century)
 * Saint Ansurius (Aduri, Asurius, Isauri), Bishop of Orense in Galicia (925)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Clement of Mt. Sagmation (1111)
 * Saint David the Builder (David III), King of Georgia (1125)
 * Venerable Xenophon, Abbot of Robeika (Novgorod) (1262)
 * Venerable Arcadius of Vyaznikovsky (1592)
 * Saint Joseph (Naniescu) of Suceava, Metropolitan of Moldova, Romania (1902)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Nun-martyr Matushka Maria (Lelyanova) of Gatchina (1932) (see also: April 4)
 * New Hieromartyr Cyril, Metropolitan of Kazan (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Arcadius (1938)
 * Martyr John Popov (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople (447-448), during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450).
 * Translation of the relics (845) of Sts. Theodore the Confessor, Abbot of the Studion (826), and his brother Joseph the Confessor, Archbishop of Thessalonica (832)
 * Repose of Metropolitan Gabriel of Novgorod and St. Petersburg (1801)