July 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# 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)

## Icon gallery

* Nun-martyr Paraskevi of Rome.
* Venerable Moses the Hungarian, of the Kiev Caves Monastery.
* Venerable Iakov Netsvetov, Enlightener of Alaska.
* St Theodosius of the Caucasus.
