title: September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  Sep. 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 27
  
  All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 9 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For September 26th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 13.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Righteous Gideon, Judge of Israel (c. 1307 BC)
  * Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (2nd century)
  * Virgin-martyrs Thekla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, and Ennatha, five nuns beheaded in Persia under Shapur II (4th century) (see also: June 9 )
  * Martyr Kyra (Cyra).
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Senator, a saint honoured in Albano in Italy.
  * Saint Eusebius of Bologna, Bishop of Bologna, Confessor (c. 400)
  * Saint Vigilius, Bishop of Brescia in Lombardy in Italy (c. 506)
  * Saint Meugan (Mawghan, Morgan), a disciple of St Illtyd who lived as a hermit and reposed on the Isle of Bardsey in Wales (6th century)
  * Saint Amantius, a priest in Città di Castello near Perugia in Italy, who was personally known to St Gregory the Great who revered him (c. 600)
  * Saint Colmán Elo, a nephew of St Columba, he founded monasteries in Lynally (Land-Elo, Lin-Alli) and in Muckamore, Ireland (c. 610)
  * Saint Nilus the Younger, of Rossano, Calabria, founder of the monastery of Grottaferrata (Crypta-Ferrata) (1004)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Venerable Ephraim, founder of Perekop Monastery, Wonderworker of Novgorod (1492)
  * Saint Neagoe Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (1521)
  * Venerable John the Cave-Dweller, ascetic of Sia, Cyprus, Wonderworker.
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyrs Athanasius Dokukin, Alexander Levitsky, and Demetrius Rozanov, Priests (1937)
  * Martyrs John Zolotov, and Nicholas Gusev (1937)
  * New Hieromartyr Vladimir Viatsky, Priest (1939)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Translation (1964) of the Honorable Skull of the Apostle Andrew the First-called to Patras.
  * Glorification (1989) of New Hiero-confessor Tikhon (Bellavin), Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1925)
  * Arrival of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God in Georgia (1989)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Righteous Gideon, Judge of Israel.
  * Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian.
  * Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian.
  * Saint Nilus the Younger.
  * Venerable Ephraim, founder of Perekop Monastery.
  * Neagoe Basarab, Milica Despina and his children pictured on the murals of the Curtea de Argeş Monastery.
  * St Andrew's Cathedral, Patras, where St. Andrew's relics are kept.
  * New Hiero-confessor Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow.
  