March 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 27
All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 8 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For March 26th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 13.Feasts
- Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.
- Apodosis of the Annunciation.
Saints
- Martyr Codratus, Emmanuel and Theodosius, and with them 40 other martyrs, who suffered under Diocletian
- Hieromartyr Theodore, with Irenaeus the Deacon, and Serapion and Ammonius the lectors, in Pentapolis in Libya
- Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary
- Hieromartyr Montanus, priest, and his wife Maxima, at Sirmium
- Martyrs Philemon and Domninus of Thessalonica, in Italy.
- Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Kival, and Martyr Pullius the Reader.
- Saint Eutychius, Subdeacon, of Alexandria
- Holy 26 Martyrs in Gothia by burning, under the Crimean Goths, under the Gothic King Jungerich, including:
- Saint Malchus of Chalcis in Syria
- Venerable Abraham of Mount Latros, ascetic.
- Venerable Stephen the Confessor and Wonderworker, Abbot of Tryglia
- Venerable Basil the Younger, anchorite near Constantinople
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyr Castulus, an officer of the palace in Rome, tortured and buried alive for helping other Orthodox
- Martyrs Peter, Marcian, John, Thecla, Cassian and others, at Rome.
- Saint Felix of Trier, consecrated Bishop of Trier in Germany by St Martin of Tours in 386
- Saint Sincheall, a disciple of St Patrick and founder of the monastery of Killeigh in Offaly, where there were 150 monks
- Saint Govan, hermit of Pembrokeshire
- Saint Mocheallóg, patron saint of Kilmallock in Limerick in Ireland
- Saint Braulio of Saragossa in Iberia, Bishop and Confessor
- Saint Garbhan, a saint who left his name to Dungarvan in Ireland
- Saint Ludger, missionary bishop in the Netherlands and northwestern Germany
- Saint Bertilo, Abbot of St Benignus Abbey in Dijon in France, martyred with several of his monks at the altar when the Vikings sacked the monastery
- Saint Felicitas of Padua, nun, probably at Sts Cosmas and Damian in Padua in Italy
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- New Martyr George of Sofia, at Adrianople
- Martyr Parasceva Kochneva
Other commemorations
- Melitina Icon of the Theotokos.
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