October 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# 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)

## Icon gallery

* Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica.
* Great-martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki.
* Martyr Lupus of Thessaloniki.
* St. Cedd, Bishop of Lastingham.
* St. Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and all Orthodox England, and Confessor.
* St. Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, Archbishop of Novgorod.
* Saint Demetrius of Basarabov in Bulgaria.
* Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740.
