October 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
October 25 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 27
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 8 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 26th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 13.
Saints
Holy and Glorious Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica- Martyr Lupus, slave of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica
- Martyrs Artemidorus and Basil, by the sword.
- Martyr Leptina, dragged to death.
- Martyr Glycon, by the sword.
- Martyr Leontini.
- Saint Athanasius of Medikion Monastery
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Evaristus, the fourth Pope of Rome and a martyr
- Saints Rogatian, a priest, and Felicissimus, a layman, of the church of Carthage in North Africa where they were martyred
- Saint Rusticus of Narbonne, a monk of Lérins who later became Bishop of Narbonne, he was present at the Third Oecumenical Council in Ephesus in 431
- Saints Alanus and Alorus, two Bishops of Quimper in Brittany
- Saint Quadragesimus, a shepherd and subdeacon in Policastro in Italy who raised a man from the dead
- Saints Aneurin and Gwinoc, father and son, both monks in Wales
- Saint Gibitrudis, a nun at Faremoutiers-en-Brie in France
- Saint Cedd, Bishop of Lastingham
- Saint Eadfrith of Leominster, a priest from Northumbria in England, he preached in Mercia and founded a monastery in Leominster
- Saint Eata of Hexham, Bishop of Hexham and Abbot of Lindisfarne
- Saint Gaudiosus of Salerno, Bishop of Salerno in Italy, his relics were venerated in Naples
- Saint Humbert, a monk at Fritzlar and Büraburg in Germany
- Saint Sigibald, Bishop of Metz in France
- Saint Cuthbert of Canterbury, a monk at Lyminge in Kent in England, he became Bishop of Hereford in c. 736 and the twelfth Archbishop of Canterbury in c. 740
- Saint Albinus, Bishop of Buraburg in Hesse
- Saint Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and all Orthodox England who defeated the Danish invaders and ensured the growth of the Church in England
- Saint Beóán of Mortlach, Bishop of Mortlach in Banff in Scotland, he later preached in Aberdeen
- Saint Adalgott, a monk at Einsiedeln and from 1012 Abbot of Dissentis, both of which monasteries are in Switzerland
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Demetrius of Tsilibinsk
- Saint Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, Archbishop of Novgorod
- Venerable New Martyr Ioasaph, monk, of Mt. Athos, disciple of St. Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Venerable Saints Leontios and Leontios, of Mt. Athos.
- Saint Anthony, Bishop of Vologda
- Saint Demetrius of Basarabov in Bulgaria
Other commemorations
- Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740
- Translation of the holy icon of Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica from Thessaloniki to Constantinople.
- Translation of the relics of New Martyr George of Ioannina
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nilus of Kryuchi
- Repose of Elder Ignatius the Bulgarian, of Mt. Athos
- Repose of Matushka Olga (A’rrsamquq) Michael of Kwethluk, Alaska