September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 9 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar

Saints

• Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (presumed author of the Gospel of John, 1, 2 and 3 John, and the Book of Revelation)
• Righteous Gideon, Judge of Israel (1307 BC)
• Saint Ephraim, abbot of Perekop, wonderworker of Novgorod (1492)
• Saint Nilus of Rossano (Calabria) (1004)
• Martyr Cyra

Other Commemorations

Glorification (1989) of New Hiero-confessor Tikhon, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1925)

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar