March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 26 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – March 28

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

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

Saints

 * Prophet Hanani (Ananias) - (II Chronicles 16:7-10).
 * Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepides, and Amphilochius, an officer in the army, with Chronidas, a notary (c. 121)   (see also: March 23)
 * Venerable Matrona of Thessalonica the Confessor (3rd-4th centuries)
 * Martyrs Baruch and John, by the sword.
 * Venerable Eutychios, monastic.
 * Venerable Cyricus (Quiricus) of Apros, in Thrace, monastic.
 * Martyrs Manuel and Theodosius (304)
 * Saint John the Clairvoyant, anchorite of Lycopolis, Egypt (394)
 * Saint Paphnutius of Thebes, disciple of Saint Anthony the Great (4th century) (see also: September 11)
 * Saint Paul the Standard-bearer, Bishop of Corinth (c. 925)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Augusta, daughter of the Teuton Duke of Friuli, martyred by her father, venerated in Serravalle near Treviso (5th century)
 * Saint Amator (Amador), a hermit to whom several churches are dedicated in Portugal.
 * Saint Rupert of Salzburg, Bishop of Salzburg (718)
 * Saint Romulus, Abbot of St Baudilius near Nîmes in France (c. 730)
 * Saint Suairlech, first Bishop of Fore in Westmeath, Ireland, from c. 735-750 (c. 750)
 * Saint Alkelda (Alkeld, Athilda), martyred by the Danes (10th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Ephraim of Rostov (1454)
 * Saint Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich (16th century)
 * Saint Anthony (Stakhovsky), Metropolitan of Tobolsk in Siberia (1740)
 * Saint Ambrose (Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1927) (see also: March 16)

Other commemorations

 * Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mount Athos:
 * "Glykophylousa" ("Sweet-kissing"), and
 * "Of the Akathist"


 * Repose of Elder Augustine of Philotheou, Mt. Athos (1965)