October 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 25 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 27

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 8 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * Holy and Glorious Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica (306)
 * Martyr Lupus (Lypp), slave of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica (306) (see also: August 23)
 * Martyrs Artemidorus and Basil, by the sword.
 * Martyr Leptina, dragged to death.
 * Martyr Glycon, by the sword.
 * Martyr Leontini.
 * Saint Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (814)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Evaristus, the fourth Pope of Rome and a martyr (c. 105)
 * Saints Rogatian, a priest, and Felicissimus, a layman, of the church of Carthage in North Africa where they were martyred (256)
 * Saint Rusticus of Narbonne, a monk of Lérins who later became Bishop of Narbonne, he was present at the Third Oecumenical Council in Ephesus in 431 (c. 462)
 * Saints Alanus and Alorus, two Bishops of Quimper in Brittany (5th century)
 * Saint Quadragesimus, a shepherd and subdeacon in Policastro in Italy who raised a man from the dead (c. 590)
 * Saints Aneurin (or Gildas) and Gwinoc, father and son, both monks in Wales (6th century)
 * Saint Gibitrudis, a nun at Faremoutiers-en-Brie in France (c. 655)
 * Saint Cedd, Bishop of Lastingham (664)    (see also: January 7)
 * Saint Eadfrith of Leominster (Edfrid, Eadfrid), a priest from Northumbria in England, he preached in Mercia and founded a monastery in Leominster (c. 675)
 * Saint Eata of Hexham, Bishop of Hexham and Abbot of Lindisfarne (686)
 * Saint Gaudiosus of Salerno, Bishop of Salerno in Italy, his relics were venerated in Naples (7th century)
 * Saint Humbert, a monk at Fritzlar and Büraburg in Germany (7th or 8th century)
 * Saint Sigibald, Bishop of Metz in France (c. 740)
 * Saint Cuthbert of Canterbury, a monk at Lyminge in Kent in England, he became Bishop of Hereford in c. 736 and the twelfth Archbishop of Canterbury in c. 740 (760)
 * Saint Albinus (Witta), Bishop of Buraburg in Hesse (c. 760)
 * Saint Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and all Orthodox England who defeated the Danish invaders and ensured the growth of the Church in England (899)
 * Saint Beóán of Mortlach (Bean), Bishop of Mortlach in Banff in Scotland, he later preached in Aberdeen (c. 1012)
 * Saint Adalgott, a monk at Einsiedeln and from 1012 Abbot of Dissentis, both of which monasteries are in Switzerland (1031)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Demetrius of Tsilibinsk (14th century)
 * Saint Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, Archbishop of Novgorod (1482)
 * Venerable New Martyr Ioasaph, monk, of Mt. Athos, disciple of St. Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (1536)
 * Venerable Saints Leontios and Leontios, of Mt. Athos.
 * Saint Anthony, Bishop of Vologda (1588)
 * Saint Demetrius of Basarabov in Bulgaria (1685)   (see also: October 27 )

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740 (740)
 * Translation of the holy icon (1149) of Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica (306) from Thessaloniki to Constantinople.
 * Translation of the relics (1971) of New Martyr George of Ioannina (1838)
 * Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nilus of Kryuchi (1924)
 * Repose of Elder Ignatius the Bulgarian, of Mt. Athos (1927)
 * Repose of Matushka Olga (A’rrsamquq) Michael of Kwethluk, Alaska (1979)