August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 26 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 28

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 9 by Eastern 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 and June 17)
 * 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.