May 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 27

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)