June 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# June 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 27

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 9 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

## Saints

* Venerable David of Thessalonica (David the Dendrite) (540)
* Venerable John, Bishop of Gothia in the Crimea (c. 787)
* Venerable Anthion, ascetic.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saints John and Paul, martyrs who suffered in Rome. (c. 361-363)
* Saint Vigilius of Trent, a Roman noble who studied in Athens, he became Bishop of Trent in Italy and more or less succeeded in uprooting paganism (405)
* Saint Maxentius (Maixent), born in Agde in France, he became a monk at a monastery in Poitou, now called Saint-Maixent, where he later became abbot (c. 515)
* Saint Barbolenus, a monk at Luxeuil Abbey and afterwards first Abbot of St Peter's, later St Maur-des-Fossés, in the north of France (c. 677)
* Saint Perseveranda (Pecinna, Pezaine), a holy virgin from Spain (c. 726)
* Saints Salvius and Superius (c. 768)
* Saint Corbican, born in Ireland, he lived as a hermit in Holland and helped simple people (8th century)
* Martyr Pelagius of Córdoba (Pelayo), a young boy from Asturias in Spain left as a hostage with the Moors in Cordoba (925)
* Saint Hermogius, founder of Labrugia Monastery in Spanish Galicia (c. 942)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Dionysius, Archbishop of Suzdal, then Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' (1385) (see also: October 15)
* New Martyr David of St. Anne’s Skete on Mount Athos, martyred in Thessaloniki (1813)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr George Stepanyuk, Priest (1918)

## Icons

* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Lydda" or "The Roman" (1st century)
* Icon of the Mother of God "Neamts" (1399)
* Icon of the Mother of God "Of the Seven Lakes", Kazan (17th century)
* Appearance of the Tikhvin Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1383)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics of Saint Brannock of Braunton (Brynach), Abbot of Braunton, Devonshire (6th century) (see also: January 7)
* Uncovering of the relics (1569) of Saint Tikhon of Lukhov (1503)
* Translation of the relics (1995) of St. Nilus of Stolobny (1554) (see also: May 27)

## Icon gallery

* Venerable David of Thessalonica.
* Memorial stone for St. John, Bishop of Gothia.
* Orthodox Church of St. John of Gothia, in Partenit.
* The crypt of St. Maxentius (Abbey of Saint-Maixent-l'École).
* The martyrdom of St. Pelagius of Córdoba.
* St. Dionysius, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'.
* Patriarch Germanus I lowers the Lydda icon of the Virgin in the sea to save her from the iconoclasts.
* Theotokos of Tikhvin.
* St. Brannock's Church, Braunton (Devon, UK).
* St. Nilus of Stolobny.
