May 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 8 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For May 26th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 13.

Saints

• Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus (possibly Cleopas) of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)^[1][2]
• Martyrs Abercius and Helen,^[3][4] children of Apostle Alphaeus (1st century)^{[2][note 2]}
• Martyr Julius, Roman soldier, by beheading, at Dorostolum in Mysia (Asia Minor) (302)^{[5][note 3]}
• Saint Synesius, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus, Wonderworker (c. 5th century)^{[6][note 4]}
• Venerable John of Psichaita the Confessor, of Constantinople (c. 825)^{[2][8][note 5][note 6]} (see also May 7)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• Hieromartyr Zacharias, Bishop of Vienne, suffered under Trajan (106)^[11][12]
• Hieromartyr Simitrius priest, and 22 other martyrs, who suffered under Antoninus Pius, at Rome (159)^{[12][13][14][note 7]}
• Saint Eleutherius, Pope of Rome (189)^{[12][13][15][note 8]}
• Saints Fugatius (Fagan) and Damian (Deruvian), sent by Pope Eleutherius to England to preach the Gospel (2nd century)^[13][16]
• Martyr Priscus, a Roman legionary officer, and a great multitude of other Christians of Besançon, near Auxerre (272)^{[12][17][note 9]}
• Martyrs Felicissimus, Heraclius, and Paulinus, at Todi in Umbria (303)^[12][13][18]
• Martyr Quadratus, a martyr in North Africa.^{[12][13][note 10]}
• Saint Bécán, a hermit near Cork in Ireland in the time of St Columba; founder of Kilbeggan, Westmeath, worked in a monastery there (6th century)^[13]
• Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England (605)^[2][19]
• Saint Oduvald, a noble who became a monk and later Abbot of Melrose Abbey in Scotland (698)^[13]
• Saint Regintrudis, fourth Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey near Salzburg in Austria.^[13]
• Saint Guinizo, born in Spain, became a monk at Montecassino in Italy (c. 1050)^[13]

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

• New Martyr George of Sofia (George the New, George the Serbian) (1515)^[2][20][21]
• New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica, the former Dervish, beheaded at Smyrna (1794)^[2][22]
• Saint Innocent, Bishop of Cherson (1857)^{[2][23][note 11]} (see also May 25)

New Martyrs and Confessors

• New Hieromartyrs Milan Banjac and Milan Golubovic, of Drvar, Serbia (1941-1945)^[2]

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Saint Bertilla (692), Abbess of Chelles.^{[25][note 12]}
• Uncovering of the relics (1521) of Venerable Macarius, Abbot of Kolyazin (1483)^[8][26][27]
• Translation of the relics (1534) of New Martyr George of Kratovo and Sofia (1515)^[8]
• The Icon of the Mother of God of Seligersk-Vladimir (16th century)^{[8][note 13]}

Icon Gallery

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  St. Eleutherius, Pope of Rome.

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  St. Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England.

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  St. Gregory the Dialogist, Pope of Rome, with St. Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England.

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  St. Innocent, Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica.

See also

• Pashons 18 (Coptic Orthodox liturgics) (May 26)

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. According to the Synaxaristes, Abercius was martyred by being exposed naked to bees, and Helena by stoning.
3. According to the Synaxaristes, the holy martyr Julius was associated with Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentine, and Hesychius, who were martyred earlier (April 24).
4. In the early Byzantine period, Karpasia belonged ecclesiastically to the Bishopric of Salamis. However, by the end of the 4th century it was organized into an episcopal district which had its seat in the ancient city of Karpasia and having as its first bishop Saint Philon.^[7] According to the Synaxaristes, St. Synesius was raised to the Episcopal throne by St. Philo (Philon) the Wonderworker of Karpasia, Cyprus (lived 4th to 5th centuries).
5. Commemorated on May 7 in the Greek Menaion.^[9]
6. The Monk John Psychantes the Confessor lived during the end of the 8th and beginning of the 9th century. In his youth he left the secular world and accepted monasticism in the Psukhanteia Lavra (in the suburbs of Constantinople). For his holy life and salvific exploits, the monk received from God the gift to cast out demons and to heal the sick. During this time there raged the heresy of the iconoclasts, and those venerating holy icons were subjected to persecution. They led away the Monk John for interrogation, where they put him under coercion to renounce the veneration of holy icons and to sign a renunciation. The monk in place of a renunciation denounced the persecutors, calling the emperor Leo Isauros (717-741) an heretic. For this they sent the monk into exile, where he died, having endured much distress from the iconoclasts.^[10]
7. A group of twenty-three martyrs in Rome, arrested while praying in the church of St. Praxedes and beheaded without trial.^[13]
8. According to the Roman Martyrology: St. Eleutherius, Pope and Martyr, who converted to the Christian faith many noble Romans. He sent Saints Damian and Fugatius to England, and they baptized King Lucius, his wife, and almost all his people.^[12] He was a Greek who became a deacon in Rome and succeeded St. Soterius as Pope in 175.^[13]
9. According to the Synaxaristes, their holy relics were later discovered by Saint Germanus of Auxerre, who dedicated a church in honour of the Holy Martyrs.
10. In Africa, St. Quadratus, martyr, on whose feast day St. Augustine preached a sermon.^[12]
11. Commemorated on May 25 in the Greek Menaion.^[24]
12. Saint Bertilla was buried beside Saint Bathilda, in the abbatial church.
13. The Icon of the Mother of God of Seligersk-Vladimir was brought in the 16th century by the Monk Nil of Stolobensk (commemorated 7 December and 27 May) to the island of Seliger, where the saint pursued asceticism and founded a monastic hermitage (Nilov Monastery). The celebration for the Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God is done also on 7 December.^[28]

References

1. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀλφαῖος καὶ Κάρπος οἱ Ἀπόστολοι ἐκ τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. May 26/June 8. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
3. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀβέρκιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Ἑλένη ἡ Μάρτυς. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
5. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰούλιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Συνέσιος. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. Saint Philon the Wonderworker of Karpasia, Cyprus. Mystagogy: The Weblog of John Sanidopoulos. January 24, 2011.
8. June 8 / May 26. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
9. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ψυχαΐτης. 7 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. The Monk John Psychantes the Confessor. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
11. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζαχαρίας ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. May 26. The Roman Martyrology.
13. May 26. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
14. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Σιμίτριος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐλευθέριος Ἐπίσκοπος Ρώμης. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ὅσιοι Φουγάτιος καὶ Δαμιανός. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Πρίσκος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ ἡ συνοδεία αὐτοῦ. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Φηλικίσσιμος, Ἡρακλῆς καὶ Παυλίνος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
19. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐγουστίνος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Καντουαρίας. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
20. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Βουλγαρίας. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
21. Greatmartyr George the New at Sofia, Bulgaria. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
22. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Δερβίσης. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
23. Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
24. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰννοκέντιος Ἐπίσκοπος Χερσῶνος. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
25. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.39.
26. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Μακαρίου. 26 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
27. Uncovering of the relics of the Venerable Macarius the Abbot of Kalyazin. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
28. Fr. S. Janos. The Icon of the Mother of God of Seligersk-Vladimir. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

Sources

• May 26/June 8. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• June 8 / May 26. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• May 26. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• May 26. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 26. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 26 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 26 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (Russian) 8 июня (26 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (Russian) 26 мая (ст.ст.) 8 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).