title: August 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # 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 (306)
  * Martyrs Atticus and Sissinius, by the sword.
  * Martyr Adrian, son of Roman Emperor Probus, at Nicomedia (320)
  * Saint Gelasius.
  * Saint Maximus III, Archbishop of Jerusalem (347) (see also: May 9)
  * Venerable Tithoes of the Thebaid (4th century), disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.
  * Monk Ioasaph, Prince of India (4th century) (see also: November 19)
  * Venerable Ibestion the Confessor, Egyptian ascetic (c. 450)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Zephyrinus, Pope of Rome from 199 to 217, who defended Orthodox Christology against heresies (217)
  * Martyrs Irenaeus and Abundius (258) (see also: August 13)
  * Saint Secundus, a soldier of the Theban Legion martyred near Ventimiglia in Italy (3rd century)
  * Saint Alexander of Bergamo (c. 303)
  * Saint Ninian, Apostle to the Southern Picts (432)
  * Saint Rufinus, Bishop of Capua (5th century)
  * Saint Elias of Syracuse, a monk who became Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily (660)
  * Saint Felix of Pistoia, a holy hermit in Pistoia in Tuscany in Italy (9th century)
  * Saint Pandwyna (Pandionia), a holy virgin born in Ireland (c. 904)
  * Saint Victor (Vitores), 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 (after 1504), disciple of St. Paisius of Uglich.
  * Saint Adrian of Ondrusov, founder of Ondrusov Monastery, Karelia (1549)
  * Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (16th century)
  * Saint Maria (Fedina) of Diveyevo, Fool-for-Christ (1931)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr Peter Levlev, Priest (1918)
  * George Kossov of Orlov (1928)
  * New Hieromartyr Nectarius (Trezvinsky), Bishop of Yaransk (1937)
  * New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest (1937)
  * New Hieromartyr Victor Ellansky, Priest (1937)
  * New Martyrs Demetrius Morozov and Peter Bordan (1937)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Commemoration of the Meeting of the "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1395)
  * Icon of the Mother of God "Virgin of Tenderness" of the Pskov Caves (1524).
  * Finding of the relics (1748) of St. Bassian, Schemamonk of Alatyr Monastery (c. 1698)
  * Miraculous Self-Renewal of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in the hands of Righteous Abbess Rufina, in Harbin, Manchuria (1925)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Martyrs Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia.
  * St. Alexander of Bergamo.
  * St. Ninian, Apostle to the Southern Picts.
  * St. Adrian of Ondrusov.
  * "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
  