August 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- 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
- Martyrs Atticus and Sissinius, by the sword.
- Martyr Adrian, son of Roman Emperor Probus, at Nicomedia
- Saint Gelasius.
- Saint Maximus, Archbishop of Jerusalem
- Venerable Tithoes of the Thebaid, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.
- Monk Ioasaph, Prince of India
- Venerable Ibestion the Confessor, Egyptian ascetic
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Zephyrinus, Pope of Rome from 199 to 217, who defended Orthodox Christology against heresies
- Martyrs Irenaeus and Abundius
- Saint Secundus, a soldier of the Theban Legion martyred near Ventimiglia in Italy
- Saint Alexander of Bergamo
- Saint Ninian, Apostle to the Southern Picts
- Saint Rufinus, Bishop of Capua
- Saint Elias of Syracuse, a monk who became Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily
- Saint Felix of Pistoia, a holy hermit in Pistoia in Tuscany in Italy
- Saint Pandwyna, a holy virgin born in Ireland
- Saint Victor, 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, disciple of St. Paisius of Uglich.
- Saint Adrian of Ondrusov, founder of Ondrusov Monastery, Karelia
- Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw
- Saint Maria of Diveyevo, Fool-for-Christ
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Peter Levlev, Priest
- George Kossov of Orlov
- New Hieromartyr Nectarius, Bishop of Yaransk
- New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest
- New Hieromartyr Victor Ellansky, Priest
- New Martyrs Demetrius Morozov and Peter Bordan
Other commemorations
- Commemoration of the Meeting of the "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Icon of the Mother of God "Virgin of Tenderness" of the Pskov Caves.
- Finding of the relics of St. Bassian, Schemamonk of Alatyr Monastery
- Miraculous Self-Renewal of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in the hands of Righteous Abbess Rufina, in Harbin, Manchuria
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