August 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# August 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 25 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 27

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 8 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

## Saints

* Martyrs Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia, and 23 companions (306)
* Martyrs Atticus and Sissinius, by the sword.
* Martyr Adrian, son of Roman Emperor Probus, at Nicomedia (320)
* Saint Gelasius.
* Saint Maximus III, Archbishop of Jerusalem (347) (see also: May 9)
* Venerable Tithoes of the Thebaid (4th century), disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.
* Monk Ioasaph, Prince of India (4th century) (see also: November 19)
* Venerable Ibestion the Confessor, Egyptian ascetic (c. 450)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Zephyrinus, Pope of Rome from 199 to 217, who defended Orthodox Christology against heresies (217)
* Martyrs Irenaeus and Abundius (258) (see also: August 13)
* Saint Secundus, a soldier of the Theban Legion martyred near Ventimiglia in Italy (3rd century)
* Saint Alexander of Bergamo (c. 303)
* Saint Ninian, Apostle to the Southern Picts (432)
* Saint Rufinus, Bishop of Capua (5th century)
* Saint Elias of Syracuse, a monk who became Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily (660)
* Saint Felix of Pistoia, a holy hermit in Pistoia in Tuscany in Italy (9th century)
* Saint Pandwyna (Pandionia), a holy virgin born in Ireland (c. 904)
* Saint Victor (Vitores), a priest in Spain martyred by the Moors in the ninth or tenth century.

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Zer-Jacob, missionary of Ethiopia.
* Saint Adrian of Uglich (after 1504), disciple of St. Paisius of Uglich.
* Saint Adrian of Ondrusov, founder of Ondrusov Monastery, Karelia (1549)
* Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (16th century)
* Saint Maria (Fedina) of Diveyevo, Fool-for-Christ (1931)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Peter Levlev, Priest (1918)
* George Kossov of Orlov (1928)
* New Hieromartyr Nectarius (Trezvinsky), Bishop of Yaransk (1937)
* New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Victor Ellansky, Priest (1937)
* New Martyrs Demetrius Morozov and Peter Bordan (1937)

## Other commemorations

* Commemoration of the Meeting of the "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1395)
* Icon of the Mother of God "Virgin of Tenderness" of the Pskov Caves (1524).
* Finding of the relics (1748) of St. Bassian, Schemamonk of Alatyr Monastery (c. 1698)
* Miraculous Self-Renewal of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in the hands of Righteous Abbess Rufina, in Harbin, Manchuria (1925)

## Icon gallery

* Martyrs Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia.
* St. Alexander of Bergamo.
* St. Ninian, Apostle to the Southern Picts.
* St. Adrian of Ondrusov.
* "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
