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, and Galicanus, 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
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Venerable David of Thessalonica.
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Orthodox Church of St. John of Gothia, in Partenit.
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The crypt of St. Maxentius (Abbey of Saint-Maixent-l'École).
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The martyrdom of St. Pelagius of Córdoba.
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Patriarch Germanus I lowers the Lydda icon of the Virgin in the sea to save her from the iconoclasts.
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St. Brannock's Church, Braunton (Devon, UK).
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St. Nilus of Stolobny.
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