May 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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May 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 27

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 8 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Carpus, Apostle of the Seventy and Bishop of Berrhoe in Thrace (1st century)
• Great martyr George the New at Sophia (1515)
• Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England (604)
• Alphaeus (possibly Cleopas) of the Seventy Apostles, and his children Abercius and Helen (1st century)
• Saint John Psichaita the Confessor of Constantinople (9th century)
• Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica, who suffered at Smyrna (modern-day Izmir) (1794)

[edit] Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics of Saint Macarius of Kolyazin, abbot