26 February
16 commemorations of 26 February in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 10 March of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyr Photine (Photina), the Samaritan woman in the Gospel, and those with her, all martyred under Nero (66)
- her sisters: Phota, Photis, Parasceva, and Cyriaca (Kyriake)
- her sons: Victor Stratelates (or Photinus) and Joses (Joseph)
- Christodoulos
- Sebastian the Duke
- the officer Anatolius; and
- Theoclitus, the former sorcerer
- Saint Porphyrius of Gaza, Bishop of Gaza (420)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πορφύριος Ἐπίσκοπος Γάζηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Nicholas of "Katopinos"Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Κατοπινόςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Sebastian of Poshekhonye, founder of Sokhotsk Monastery, Yaroslavl (1500)Ὁ Ὅσιος Σεβαστιανὸς ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr John the Cabinetmaker (John Calphas, "the Apprentice"), by beheading, at Constantinople (1575)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Κάλφαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Peter Varlamov, Priest of Ufim (1930)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Voskresensky, Priest (1933)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Virgin-martyr Anna Blagoveshchensky (1937)miloserdie.ru
- New Hieromartyr John (Pashin), Bishop of Rylsk (Rila) (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr John Dunaev, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saint Dionysius of Augsburg, venerated as the first Bishop of Augsburg in Germany (c. 303)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Faustinian, second Bishop of Bologna in Italy (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Andrew of Florence, Bishop of Florence and Confessor (c. 407)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Agricola, Bishop of Nevers in France (c. 594)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Victor, a hermit in Arcis-sur-Aube in Champagne in France (7th century)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Synaxis of the Mezhetsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos at Kiev (1492)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Κιέβῳ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
The list is February 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.