# December 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 25 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – December 27
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 8 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 26th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 13.

## Feasts

* Second Day of the Feast of the Nativity.
* Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos.
* Commemoration of the Flight into Egypt of the Most Blessed Theotokos.
* Commemoration of Saint Joseph, King David and Saint James.

## Saints

* Saint Archelaus, Bishop of Harran in Northern Mesopotamia (c. 280)
* Saint Zeno (Zenon), Bishop of Maiuma (the port of Gaza), in Palestine (4th century)
* Venerable Evaristus (Evarestos), Monk of the Studion Monastery (825)
* Hieromartyr Euthymius of Sardis (Euthymios the Confessor), Bishop of Sardis (840)
* Venerable Constantine, Monk of Synnada, the former Jew (9th century)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Dionysius, Pope of Rome (268)
* Saint Marinus, the son of a senator in Rome, he was martyred by beheading under Numerian (283)
* Saint Zosimus, a Greek Pope of Rome (418)
* Saint Tathai (Tathan, Tathaeus, Athaeus), Abbot of Llantathan (early 6th century)
* Saint Jarlath, first Bishop of Tuam, founder of the monastery of Cluain Fois, near Tuam (Ireland) (c. 540)
* Saint Theodore the Sacrist, a holy man and contemporary of St Gregory the Great in Rome (6th century)
* Saint Amaethlu (Maethlu); a church founded by him in the village of Llanfaethlu in Anglesey, Wales, is named after him (6th century)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Nicodemus of Tismana, Romania (1406)
* New Hieromartyr Constantius the Russian, Priest at Constantinople, by beheading (1743)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Demetrius, Priests (1918)
* New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Michael, and Nicholas, Priests, and Michael, Deacon (1930)
* New Hieromartyr Leonidas (Antoshchenko), Bishop of Mariisk (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Basil (Mazurenko), Hieromonk (1937)
* Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1937)
* New Martyr Augusta (Zashchuk), Schema-Nun (1937)
* Virgin Martyrs Anthisa and Makaria (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Andrew, Bishop of Ufa (1937)
* New Martyr, Valentina, (1937)
* Venerable New Hieromartyr Isaac II (Bobrikov), Archimandrite of Optina Monastery (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Gregory, Priest (1938)
* Virgin Martyrs Augusta and Mary (1938)
* Martyr Agrippina (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Repose of Abbot Barlaam of Valaam and Optina Monasteries (1849)
* Repose of Archimandrite Irenarchus (Rosetti) of Mt. Tabor (1859)
* Repose of Elder Serapheim Savvaitis, Hegumen of the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified (2003)

### Icons

* Icon of the "Mother of God of "Vilna" ("Vilen-Ostrabramsk", "Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn").
* Icon of the Mother of God "the Three Joys".
* Icon of the Mother of God "Merciful" (Greek: Eleousa).
* Icon of the Mother of God "the Blessed Womb" or "Barlovsk" (1392)
* Icon of the Mother of God "Baibuzsk" (Baibuskaya) (1852)

## Icon gallery

* Synaxis of the Theotokos (Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery, 15th–16th centuries)
* The Flight into Egypt. (Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai)
* Ukrainian icon of the Flight into Egypt; the bottom section shows the idols of Egypt miraculously falling down before Jesus and being smashed (17th century).
* Pope Dionysius (259–268). (Fresco in Sistine Chapel, Vatican)
* Pope Zosimus.
* Stained glass window depicting Saint Jarlath (1961).
* St. Nicodemus of Tismana, Romania.
* Icon of the "Mother of God of "Vilna" (Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn, Vilnius)
* Icon of the Mother of God "Merciful". (Mosaic icon from Kykkos Monastery, Cyprus).
* Icon of the Mother of God "the Blessed Womb" or "Barlovsk" (1392).