November 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 25 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 27

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 9 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For November 26, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 13.

Saints

• Venerable James the Solitary of Syria (457)^[1][2][3][4]
• Venerable Chaeremon.^{[3][5][note 2]}
• Saint Peter of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem (552)^{[1][3][6][note 3]}
• Venerable Stylianos of Paphlagonia, monk (6th century)^{[1][3][7][8][note 4]}
• Venerable Acacius of Mt. Latros, who is mentioned in The Ladder (6th century)^[1][3][9] (see also: November 29)
• Venerable Silas, Bishop of Corinth in Persia.^[3][10]
• Saint Procopius of Persia.^{[3][11][note 5]}
• Venerable Alypius the Stylite of Adrianopolis (608 or 640)^[1][12][13]
• Venerable Nikon Metanoeite, "Preacher of Repentance" (988)^{[1][3][14][15][note 6]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Amator, Bishop of Autun in France (3rd century)^[16][17]
• Saint Siricius, Pope of Rome (399)^{[16][note 7]}
• Saint Basolus (Basle), a French Benedictine monk at Verzy near Rheims, then a hermit for forty years on a hill near the city, confessor, wonderworker (c. 620)^[16][17]
• Saint Martin of Arades, a monk at Corbie Abbey in France (726)^[16]
• Saint Conrad of Constance, Bishop of Constance in Germany, went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land three times (975)^[16][17]
• Saint Vacz, a hermit in Visegrád in the mountains of Pilis in Hungary (11th century)^[16]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerables Athanasius and Theodosius of Cherepovets, disciples of St. Sergius of Radonezh (c. 1388)^{[1][18][19][20]}
• Saint Innocent of Irkutsk, first bishop of Irkutsk, Apostle to Siberia and Wonderworker (1731)^{[1][3][19][21][22]}
• New Martyr George of Chios, at Kydonias in Asia Minor (1807)^{[1][3][23][24]}

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Zamaraev, John Vinogradov, George Kolokolov, Priests (1937)^{[19][20][25][26]}
• New Hieromartyrs Nazarius Gribkov, Basil Agafonikov, Basil Kolosov, Elijah Zachatesky,^{[note 8]} Basil Studnitsyn, Daniel Meshaninov, and Michael Zelentsovsky, Priests (1937)^[19][25][26]
• New Hieromartyr Tikhon (Buzov), Archimandrite, of Donskoy Monastery, Moscow (1937)^{[1][19][25][26]}
• New Hieromartyr Peter Tsarapkin (after 1937)^[19][25][26]

Other commemorations

• Dedication of the Church of St. George at Kiev (1054)^{[1][19][27][28]}
• Dedication of the Church of St. George in the Kyparissia district of Constantinople.^{[29][note 9]}
• Repose of Sophianos of Dryinoupolis, Orthodox missionary in Ottoman Epirus, considered the forerunner of Cosmas of Aetolia in the region (1711)^[31]

Icon gallery

• 
  St. Siricius, Pope of Rome.
• 
  St. Stylianos of Paphlagonia.
• 
  Venerable Nikon Metanoeite, "Preacher of Repentance".
• 
  St. Innocent of Irkutsk, Apostle to Siberia.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. He is not recorded in the Menaia and Synaxarion of St. Nicodemus. However he is referenced in the Parisian Codex on this day, which notes that he lived an ascetical life in the desert and reposed in peace.
3. He is unknown in the Synaxarion. His memory is preserved in the Jerusalemitic Codex, p. 119, published by Archimandrite Kallistos.
4. Name days celebrated today include:

   • Stylianos, Stelios (Στυλιανός);
   • Styliani, Stella (Στυλιανή).
5. He is unknown in the Synaxaria and the Menaia. His service is preserved in the Parisian Codex, where we learn that he fought against idolatry and suffered a martyric death after various and many tortures.
6. Patron saint of Sparta and the region of the Mani Peninsula (southern part of Ancient Sparta) where he brought Christianity to Mani and preached it to the Maniots.
7. "At Rome, St. Siricius, pope and confessor, celebrated for his learning, piety and zeal for religion, who condemned various heretics, and published salutary laws concerning ecclesiastical discipline."^[17]
8. See also: (in Russian) Зачатейский, Илья Александрович. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
9. This church was perhaps associated with Michael Attaleiates (1077 AD), because his family tomb was located there. The consecration of the church took place on April 24.^[30]