# March 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

## Feasts

* Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.
* Apodosis (Leavetaking) of the Annunciation.

## Saints

* Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), Emmanuel and Theodosius, and with them 40 other martyrs, who suffered under Diocletian (284-305)
* Hieromartyr Theodore, with Irenaeus the Deacon, and Serapion and Ammonius the lectors, in Pentapolis in Libya (304)
* Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary (304) (see also: March 25)
* Hieromartyr Montanus, priest, and his wife Maxima, at Sirmium (ca. 304)
* Martyrs Philemon and Domninus of Thessalonica, in Italy. (see also: March 21)
* Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Kival, and Martyr Pullius the Reader.
* Saint Eutychius, Subdeacon, of Alexandria (356)
* Holy 26 Martyrs in Gothia by burning, under the Crimean Goths, under the Gothic King Jungerich (375-383), including:
   * Bathusius and Bercus, presbyters;
   * Monk-martyr Arpilus;
   * Laymen martyrs: Abibus, Agnus (Hagias), Reasus (Ruias), Igathrax (Egathrax), Iscoeus (Iskous, Eskoes, Escoos), Silas, Signicus (Sigetzas), Sonerilas (Swerilas), Suimbalus (Swemblas), Thermus (Therthas), Phillus (Philgas);
   * Laywomen martyrs: Anna, Alla (Alas), Larissa (Baren, Beride), Monco (Manca, Moiko), Mamica (Kamika), Uirko (Virko, Oneko), Animais (Animaida, Anemais), Gaatha the queen of the Goths, and Duklida (Dulcilla).
* Saint Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (4th century) (see also: November 24)
* Venerable Abraham of Mount Latros (Latrium), ascetic. (see also: March 24)
* Venerable Stephen the Confessor and Wonderworker, Abbot of Tryglia (815)
* Venerable Basil the Younger, anchorite near Constantinople (944 or 952)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyr Castulus, an officer of the palace in Rome, tortured and buried alive for helping other Orthodox (286) (see also: December 18)
* Martyrs Peter, Marcian, John, Thecla, Cassian and others, at Rome.
* Saint Felix of Trier, consecrated Bishop of Trier in Germany by St Martin of Tours in 386 (ca. 400)
* Saint Sincheall, a disciple of St Patrick and founder of the monastery of Killeigh in Offaly, where there were 150 monks (5th century)
* Saint Govan, hermit of Pembrokeshire (586)
* Saint Mocheallóg (Cellog, Mottelog, Motalogus), patron saint of Kilmallock in Limerick in Ireland (ca.639)
* Saint Braulio of Saragossa in Iberia, Bishop and Confessor (646)
* Saint Garbhan (Garbán), a saint who left his name to Dungarvan in Ireland (7th century)
* Saint Ludger, missionary bishop in the Netherlands and northwestern Germany (809)
* Saint Bertilo, Abbot of St Benignus Abbey in Dijon in France, martyred with several of his monks at the altar when the Vikings sacked the monastery (ca. 878-888)
* Saint Felicitas of Padua, nun, probably at Sts Cosmas and Damian in Padua in Italy (9th century)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* New Martyr George of Sofia, at Adrianople (1437)

### New martyrs and confessors

* Martyr Parasceva Kochneva (1939)

## Other commemorations

* Melitina Icon of the Theotokos.

## Icon gallery

* Archangel Gabriel (by Simon Ushakov).
* Icon of a vision granted by Basil the Younger to his servant, of the death of St Theodora and the aerial toll houses.
* St. Braulio and Isidore of Seville (10th century)
* St. Ludger