title: October 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # 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 (306)
  * Martyr Lupus (Lypp), slave of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica (306) (see also: August 23)
  * Martyrs Artemidorus and Basil, by the sword.
  * Martyr Leptina, dragged to death.
  * Martyr Glycon, by the sword.
  * Martyr Leontini.
  * Saint Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (814)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Evaristus, the fourth Pope of Rome and a martyr (c. 105)
  * Saints Rogatian, a priest, and Felicissimus, a layman, of the church of Carthage in North Africa where they were martyred (256)
  * 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 (c. 462)
  * Saints Alanus and Alorus, two Bishops of Quimper in Brittany (5th century)
  * Saint Quadragesimus, a shepherd and subdeacon in Policastro in Italy who raised a man from the dead (c. 590)
  * Saints Aneurin (or Gildas) and Gwinoc, father and son, both monks in Wales (6th century)
  * Saint Gibitrudis, a nun at Faremoutiers-en-Brie in France (c. 655)
  * Saint Cedd, Bishop of Lastingham (664) (see also: January 7)
  * Saint Eadfrith of Leominster (Edfrid, Eadfrid), a priest from Northumbria in England, he preached in Mercia and founded a monastery in Leominster (c. 675)
  * Saint Eata of Hexham, Bishop of Hexham and Abbot of Lindisfarne (686)
  * Saint Gaudiosus of Salerno, Bishop of Salerno in Italy, his relics were venerated in Naples (7th century)
  * Saint Humbert, a monk at Fritzlar and Büraburg in Germany (7th or 8th century)
  * Saint Sigibald, Bishop of Metz in France (c. 740)
  * 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 (760)
  * Saint Albinus (Witta), Bishop of Buraburg in Hesse (c. 760)
  * 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 (899)
  * Saint Beóán of Mortlach (Bean), Bishop of Mortlach in Banff in Scotland, he later preached in Aberdeen (c. 1012)
  * Saint Adalgott, a monk at Einsiedeln and from 1012 Abbot of Dissentis, both of which monasteries are in Switzerland (1031)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Venerable Demetrius of Tsilibinsk (14th century)
  * Saint Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, Archbishop of Novgorod (1482)
  * Venerable New Martyr Ioasaph, monk, of Mt. Athos, disciple of St. Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (1536)
  * Venerable Saints Leontios and Leontios, of Mt. Athos.
  * Saint Anthony, Bishop of Vologda (1588)
  * Saint Demetrius of Basarabov in Bulgaria (1685) (see also: October 27 )
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740 (740)
  * Translation of the holy icon (1149) of Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica (306) from Thessaloniki to Constantinople.
  * Translation of the relics (1971) of New Martyr George of Ioannina (1838)
  * Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nilus of Kryuchi (1924)
  * Repose of Elder Ignatius the Bulgarian, of Mt. Athos (1927)
  * Repose of Matushka Olga (A’rrsamquq) Michael of Kwethluk, Alaska (1979)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica.
  * Great-martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki.
  * Martyr Lupus of Thessaloniki.
  * St. Cedd, Bishop of Lastingham.
  * St. Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and all Orthodox England, and Confessor.
  * St. Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, Archbishop of Novgorod.
  * Saint Demetrius of Basarabov in Bulgaria.
  * Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740.
  