June 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 27

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 9 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * Venerable David of Thessalonica (David the Dendrite) (540)
 * Venerable John, Bishop of Gothia in the Crimea (c. 787)
 * Venerable Anthion, ascetic.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints John and Paul, and Galicanus, martyrs who suffered in Rome. (c. 361-363)
 * Saint Vigilius of Trent, a Roman noble who studied in Athens, he became Bishop of Trent in Italy and more or less succeeded in uprooting paganism (405)
 * Saint Maxentius (Maixent), born in Agde in France, he became a monk at a monastery in Poitou, now called Saint-Maixent, where he later became abbot (c. 515)
 * Saint Barbolenus, a monk at Luxeuil Abbey and afterwards first Abbot of St Peter's, later St Maur-des-Fossés, in the north of France (c. 677)
 * Saint Perseveranda (Pecinna, Pezaine), a holy virgin from Spain (c. 726)
 * Saints Salvius and Superius (c. 768)
 * Saint Corbican, born in Ireland, he lived as a hermit in Holland and helped simple people (8th century)
 * Martyr Pelagius of Córdoba (Pelayo), a young boy from Asturias in Spain left as a hostage with the Moors in Cordoba (925)
 * Saint Hermogius, founder of Labrugia Monastery in Spanish Galicia (c. 942)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Dionysius, Archbishop of Suzdal, then Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' (1385)    (see also: October 15)
 * New Martyr David of St. Anne’s Skete on Mount Athos, martyred in Thessaloniki (1813)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr George Stepanyuk, Priest (1918)

Icons

 * Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Lydda" or "The Roman" (1st century)
 * Icon of the Mother of God "Neamts" (1399)
 * Icon of the Mother of God "Of the Seven Lakes", Kazan (17th century)
 * Appearance of the Tikhvin Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1383)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics of Saint Brannock of Braunton (Brynach), Abbot of Braunton, Devonshire (6th century)    (see also: January 7)
 * Uncovering of the relics (1569) of Saint Tikhon of Lukhov (1503)
 * Translation of the relics (1995) of St. Nilus of Stolobny (1554)   (see also: May 27)