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March 26 (eastern Orthodox Liturgics)

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

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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 Bathusius and Bercus , Presbyters

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 )