title: April 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # April 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  April 25 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 27
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 9 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For April 26th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 13.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Martyrs Cyril, Chindeu, and Tasie of Axiopolis (c. 304)
  * Righteous Virgin-martyr Glaphyra of Nicomedia (322)
  * Hieromartyr Basil of Amasea, Bishop of Amasea (c. 323)
  * Saints Andrew and Anatolius, disciples of St. Euthymius the Great (5th century)
  * Saint Justa, nun.
  * Venerable Nestor.
  * Saint Leo of Samos (Leontos), Bishop of Samos, Wonderworker (9th century)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Peter of Braga (Peter of Rates), first Bishop and martyr of Braga in Portugal (c. 60).
  * Saint Marcellinus, a Pope of Rome, who may have been martyred in repentance for his previous errors (304) (see also: June 7 - East)
  * Saint Exuperantia, a saint whose relics are venerated in Troyes in France (c. 380).
  * Saint Lucidius of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy.
  * Saint Clarentius (Clarent), successor of St Etherius as Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 620)
  * Saint Trudpert, a hermit, possibly from Ireland, who lived in Münstethal in Germany (c. 644)
  * Saint Richarius (Riquier), Abbot, Confessor, in Picardy (645)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Venerable George of Cyprus, first Igumen of the Monastery of St. John Chrysostomos, near Koutsovendis, in the Kyrenia District of Cyprus (1091)
  * Venerable Calantius of Tamassos (Kalandios), one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th century)
  * Saint Stephen of Perm, Bishop of Perm (1396)
  * New Martyrs of Novo Selo ("Holy Trinity" Novoselska convent), Bulgaria (1876)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New martyrs John Pankov, priest, and his children Nicholas Pankov, and Peter Pankov, new martyrs of Orlov (1918)
  * Venerable Elder Ieronymos of Simonopetra (1957) (see also: May 9 - NS)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Translation of the sacred relics of Saint Ioannicius of Devic, Serbia (1430)
  * Repose of Schema-nun Agnia (Chizhikov) of Akulovo (1984)
  * Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Aimilianos (Vafeidis) of Simonopetra (2019)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Martyrdom of Pope Marcellinus.
  * Relics of Saint Richarius, kept in the abbey church of St. Riquier.
  * Saint Stephen of Perm.
  