August 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
August 25 - 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 III, Archbishop of Jerusalem
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