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December 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 25 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – December 27

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

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

Feasts

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Dionysius, Pope of Rome (268)
  • Saint Marinus, the son of a senator in Rome, he was martyred by beheading under Numerian (283)
  • Saint Zosimus, a Greek Pope of Rome (418)
  • Saint Tathai (Tathan, Tathaeus, Athaeus), Abbot of Llantathan (early 6th century)
  • Saint Jarlath, first Bishop of Tuam, founder of the monastery of Cluain Fois, near Tuam, Ireland (c. 540)
  • Saint Theodore the Sacrist, a holy man and contemporary of Saint Gregory the Great in Rome (6th century)
  • Saint Amaethlu (Maethlu); a church founded by him in the village of Llanfaethlu in Anglesey, Wales, is named after him (6th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Constantius (Constantine) the Russian, Priest at the Great Lavra on Mount Athos and Constantinople, by beheading (1743)
  • New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Demetrius, Priests (1918)
  • New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Michael, and Nicholas, Priests, and Michael, Deacon (1930)
  • New Hieromartyr Leonid Antoshchenko, Bishop of Mariisk (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Basil Mazurenko, Hieromonk (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1937)
  • New Martyr Augusta Zashchuk, Schemanun (1937)
  • New Virgin Martyrs Anthisa and Makaria (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Andrew, Bishop of Ufa (1937)
  • New Martyr Valentina of Russia (1937)
  • Venerable New Hieromartyr Isaac II Bobrikov, Archimandrite of Optina Monastery (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Gregory, Priest (1938)
  • New Virgin Martyrs Augusta and Mary (1938)
  • New Martyr Agrippina (1938)
  • Venerable Hieromartyr Gherasim (Iscu) of Tismana, Archimandrite, abbot of Tismana Monastery (1951)

Other commemorations

Icons

  • Icon of the "Mother of God of "Vilna" ("Vilen-Ostrabramsk", "Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn")
  • Icon of the Mother of God "the Three Joys"
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Merciful" (Greek: Eleousa)
  • Icon of the Mother of God "the Blessed Womb" or "Barlovsk" (1392)
  • "Bethlehem" Icon of the Mother of God
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Baibuzsk" (Baibuskaya) (1852)

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

  • December 26/January 8. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • January 8 / December 26. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • December 26. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). pp. 2–3.
  • December 26. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 397–398.

Greek Sources

Russian Sources