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August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Aug. 26 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 28

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 9 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 27, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 14.

Saints

  • Saint Hosius the Confessor (Osius or Ossius), Bishop of Cordova (359)
  • Saint Liberius the Confessor, Pope of Rome (366)
  • Saint Arcadius, Eastern Roman Emperor (395-408)
  • Saint Praulius, Archbishop of Jerusalem (422)
  • Venerable Poemen the Great, of Egypt (450)
  • Saint Sabbas, monk, of Benephali.
  • Saint Poemen of Palestine (605)
  • Great-martyr Phanourios the Newly-Revealed, of Rhodes.
  • Martyr Anthousa the New, by drowning in a well.
  • Venerable Theoklitos, a Magistros from Constantinople who retired from the world and took the monastic habit, becoming an ascetic on Mt. Olympos.

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Virgin-martyr Euthalia, in Leontini in Sicily (252) (see also: March 2 - East)
  • Martyrs Rufus and Carpophorus (Carpone), Martyrs in Capua under Diocletian (295)
  • Saint Rufus of Capua, Bishop of Capua and disciple of St Apollinaris of Ravenna.
  • Saint Narnus, first Bishop of Bergamo in Italy.
  • Saint Monica of Hippo (Monica of Tagaste) (387) (see also: May 4 - East)
  • Saint Caesarius of Arles, Bishop of Arles (543)
  • Saint Licerius (Lizier), Bishop of Couserans (c. 548)
  • Saint Syagrius (Siacre), Bishop of Autun and Confessor (600)
  • Saint Etherius (Alermius), Bishop of Lyons (602)
  • Saint Decuman of Watchet (Dagan) (706)
  • Saint Ebbo, Bishop of Sens (740)
  • Saint John of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Lombardy (813)
  • Saint Agilo, Monk of St Aper in Toul in France (957)
  • Saint Gebhard of Constance, Bishop of Constance in Germany (995)
  • Saint Malrubius, an hermit in Merns in Kincardineshire in Scotland, martyred by Norwegian invaders (c. 1040)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Hieromartyr Kuksha and St. Pimen the Faster, of the Near Caves in Kiev (after 1114)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyrs Michael Voskresensky, Priest, (with 28 other martyrs), and Stephen Nemkov, Priest, (with 18 other martyrs), all of Nizhni-Novgorod (1918)
  • New Hieromartyrs John Lebedev and John Smirnov, Priests (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Methodius (Ivanov), Abbot, of Sukovo (Moscow) (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Aleksander Tsitserov, Priest (1939)
  • New Hieromartyr Vladimir Sokolov, Priest (1940)
  • Saint Demetrius Kryuchkov the Confessor, Priest (1952)

    • Other commemorations

  • Baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch Djan Darada, by Saint Philip the Evangelist, in Acts 8:26-40 (1st century) (see also: January 4)
  • Uncovering of the relics (1991) of St. John Gashkevich, Archpriest, of Korma (1917)
  • Slaying of Archimandrite Symeon (Kholmogorov), spiritual writer (1937)
  • Repose of Archimandrite Sergius (Ozerov) of New Valaam Monastery in Siberia (1937)
  • Translation of the Relics of Saints Theognostus, Cyprian and Photius, Metropolitans of Moscow.

    • References

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