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
- Second Day of the Feast of the NativitySynaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Commemoration of the flight into Egypt of the Most Blessed Theotokos
- Commemoration of Saint Joseph, King David, and Saint James, brother of the Lord
Saints
- Saint Archelaus, Bishop of Harran in Northern Mesopotamia
- Saint Zeno, Bishop of Maiuma in Palestine
- Venerable Evarestus, Monk of the Studion Monastery Hieromartyr Euthymius the Confessor, Bishop of Sardis
- Venerable Constantine, Monk of Synnada, the former Jew
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Dionysius, Pope of Rome
- Saint Marinus, the son of a senator in Rome, he was martyred by beheading under Numerian
- Saint Zosimus, a Greek Pope of Rome
- Saint Tathai, Abbot of Llantathan
- Saint Jarlath, first Bishop of Tuam, founder of the monastery of Cluain Fois, near Tuam, Ireland
- Saint Theodore the Sacrist, a holy man and contemporary of Saint Gregory the Great in Rome
- Saint Amaethlu ; a church founded by him in the village of Llanfaethlu in Anglesey, Wales, is named after him
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Constantius the Russian, Priest at the Great Lavra on Mount Athos and Constantinople, by beheading
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Demetrius, Priests
- New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Michael, and Nicholas, Priests, and Michael, Deacon
- New Hieromartyr Leonid Antoshchenko, Bishop of Mariisk
- New Hieromartyr Basil Mazurenko, Hieromonk
- New Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest
- New Martyr Augusta Zashchuk, Schemanun
- New Virgin Martyrs Anthisa and Makaria
- New Hieromartyr Andrew, Bishop of Ufa
- New Martyr Valentina of Russia
- Venerable New Hieromartyr Isaac II Bobrikov, Archimandrite of Optina Monastery
- New Hieromartyr Gregory, Priest
- New Virgin Martyrs Augusta and Mary
- New Martyr Agrippina
Other commemorations
- Repose of Abbot Barlaam of Valaam and Optina Monasteries
- Repose of Archimandrite Irenarchus Rosetti of Mount Tabor
- Repose of Elder Serapheim Savvaitis, Hegumen of the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified
Icons
- Icon of the "Mother of God of "Vilna"
- Icon of the Mother of God "the Three Joys"
- Icon of the Mother of God "Merciful"
- Icon of the Mother of God "the Blessed Womb" or "Barlovsk"
- "Bethlehem" Icon of the Mother of God
- Icon of the Mother of God "Baibuzsk"