December 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

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

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

Feasts

Third Day of the Feast of the Nativity.

Saints

Archdeacon Stephen the Protomartyr (34)

Saint Maximus, Pope of Alexandria (282)

Martyrs Maurice, with his son Photinus, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea (286-305)

Saint Theodore, Patriarch of Constantinople (686)

Venerable Theodore the Branded (Theodore Graptus), of Palestine and Bithynia, Confessor (840)

Venerable Luke, Abbot of the Monastery of the Deep Stream in Triglia, in Bithynia.

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Saint Fabiola, a patrician in Rome who gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work (399)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Saint Svyatoslav II Yaroslavich, Prince of Chernihiv, son of St Yaroslav the Wise (1076)

Venerable Abbot Boniface (Vinogradsky), founder of St. Panteleimon Monastery, Kiev (1871)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyrs Tikhon (Nikanorov), Archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests (1919)

Virgin-Martyr Antonina (1937)

Other Commemorations

Uncovering of Relics (1514) of Venerable Pherapont (Therapont) of Mozhaisk, Luzhetsk. (see May 27 for feast day.)

Repose of Nicholas Ilminsky, Missionary to the Tatars (1891)

Repose of Archimandrite Agathangelus of Svir and Valaam (1909)

Repose of Helen Ivanovna Motovilova (1910)

Repose of Abbot Athanasius of Grigoriou Monastery, Mt. Athos (1953)

Repose of Archimandrite Seraphim (Rozenberg) of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1993)

Icons

Icon of the Mother of God "the Merciful".

References

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