July 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 27

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 8 by Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * Nun-martyr Paraskevi of Rome (138-161)
 * Martyr Oraiozela of Byzantium, near the Bosphorus, under Domitian (c. 81-96)
 * Virgin-martyr Jerusalem of Byzantium, friend of St. Oraiozela, near the Bosphorus (c. 81-96)
 * Hieromartyrs Hermolaus, Hermippus and Hermocrates at Nicomedia (c. 305)
 * Martyr Appion, by the sword.
 * Venerable Moses the Hungarian, of the Kiev Caves Monastery (c. 1043)
 * Venerable Ignatius of Mt. Stirion, monk.
 * Venerable Symeon the Archimandrite and Stylite.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Pastor, a priest in Rome and by tradition the brother of Pope Pius I (c. 160)
 * Saints Symphronius, Olympius, Theodulus and Exuperia, all burnt to death under Valerian (257)
 * Saint Valens (Valente), Bishop of Verona in Italy from 524 to 531 (531)
 * Saint Simeon of Padolirone (Simeon of Mantua), an Armenian hermit who went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Rome, Compostella and Tours (1016)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Gerontius, founder of St. Anne’s Skete, Mount Athos (13th century)
 * Saint Sava III, Archbishop of Serbia (1316)
 * Saint Ioannicius the New, Schemamonk of Muscel, Romania (1638)
 * Venerable Iakov Netsvetov of Atka Island and Ikogmute, missionary priest to the Yup’ik on the Yukon River, Enlightener of Alaska (1864)
 * Saint Isaac, Hieromonk of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1903)
 * Saint Theodosius of the Caucasus, Schema-Igumen (Hieroconfessor Theodosius Of Minvody) (1948)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Sergius Strelnikov, Priest (1937)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Emvolon" (in Pegadion by the New Colonnade), Constantinople.
 * Consecration of the Temple the Holy Archangel Michael in Scallae.
 * Consecration of the Temple the Holy Archangel Gabriel in Chaldae.
 * Repose of Elder Theophanes of Solovki Monastery (1819)
 * Repose of Archimandrite Nathaniel (Pospelov) of Pskov-Caves Monastery (2002)