Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

January 26

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

1. St. Xenophon and his wife, St. Mary, and their two sons, Saints Arcadius and John, of Constantinople.
2. St. Symeon "the Ancient" of Mt. Sinai.
3. Martyrs Ananias presbyter, Peter, and seven soldiers, in Phoenicia.
4. Translation of the Relics of St. Theodore, abbot of the Studion.
5. St. Joseph, Bishop of Thessalonica, brother of St. Theodore of the Studion.
6. St. Gabriel, abbot at Jerusalem, and St. Ammon, disciple of St. Anthony the Great.
7. St. David III, king of Georgia.
8. New-Martyr Cyril, Metropolitan of Kazan (1937).
9. New Hieromartyr Arcadius (1938).
10. New-Martyr Matushka Maria of Gatchina (1930).
11. Greek Calendar
    • Two Martyrs of Phrygia.
    • St. Clement of Mt. Stirion, monk.
    • St. Xenophon of Robika, monk.
12. Repose of Metropolitan Gabriel of Novgorod and Petersburg (1801).