February 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Feb. 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 27

[edit] 2006

• Sunday of the Last Judgment (see Paschal cycle)
• Meat-Fare Sunday (the last day meat is to be eaten before Pascha)

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 11 (March 10) by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Saint Porphyrius of Gaza, bishop (421)
• Saint Sebastian, monk of Poshekhonye
• Saint John Calphas ("the Apprentice") at Constantinople (1575)
• Saint Photina, the Samaritan woman in the Gospel story, along with her sisters Anatola, Phota, Parasceva, and Cyriaca; her sons Photinus and Joses; and the martyrs Victor, Sebastian the Duke, Christodulos, and Theoclitas (66)