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 [[Wereka and Batwin

|Bathouses and Ouerkas]], presbyters, with Arpulas the monk, and laymen Abippus, Hagias, Ruias, Egathrax, Eskoes, Silas, Sigetzas, Swerilas, Swemblas, Therthas, Philgas, and the laywomen Anna, Alas, Baren, Moiko, Kamika, Oneko, and Anemais.

• Martyr Codratus (Quadratus) and with him 40 martyrs who suffered under Diocletian
• Saint Ludger, missionary bishop in the Netherlands and Germany (809)