March 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

2006

• Sunday of the Adoration of the Cross
• 3rd Sunday of Great Lent

Fixed commemorations

All commemorations below are observed on April 8 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel
• Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary
• Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Kival, and martyr Pullius the Reader
• Saint Malchus of Chalcis in Syria
• Saint Braulio of Saragossa in Iberia, bishop (651)
• Saint Basil the Younger, anchorite near Constantinople
• Martyrs Bathusus and Bercus, presbyters, with Arpilus the monk, and laymen Abibus, Agnus, Reasus, Igathrax, Iscoeus (Iskous, Escocs), Silas, Signicus, Sonerilas, Suimbalus, Thermus, Phillus (Philgas), and the laywomen Anna, Alia, Larissa, Monco (Manca), Mamica, Uirko (Virko), Animais (Animaida), Gaatha, and Duklida, in Crimea
• Martyr Codratus (Quadratus) and with him 40 martyrs who suffered under Diocletian
• Saint Ludger, missionary bishop in the Netherlands and Germany (809)