Trying to show only ONE category post in page template

Hello, I am trying to show a single category in a new template page I created (using a few tutorials)

For the life of me, I can’t get it to show only the posts in a single category (category 26).

Right now the page template works but it shows ALL the categories posts instead of the one category I need.

This is my code that calls the posts

<?php

	    	$post = $wp_query->post;

	   	 	$limit = get_settings('posts_per_page');

			$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

			query_posts('showposts='.$limit.'&paged=' . $paged);

			while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 

			?>

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Any help will be greatly appreciated.