December 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 26 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 28

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 9 by Eastern 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)  (see also: February 22)
 * 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

 * 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 also: May 27 - 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".