August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- 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, Bishop of Cordova
- Saint Liberius the Confessor, Pope of Rome
- Saint Arcadius, Eastern Roman Emperor
- Saint Praulius, Archbishop of Jerusalem
- Venerable Poemen the Great, of Egypt
- Saint Sabbas, monk, of Benephali.
- Saint Poemen of Palestine
- 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
- Martyrs Rufus and Carpophorus, Martyrs in Capua under Diocletian
- 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
- Saint Caesarius of Arles, Bishop of Arles
- Saint Licerius, Bishop of Couserans
- Saint Syagrius, Bishop of Autun and Confessor
- Saint Etherius, Bishop of Lyons
- Saint Decuman of Watchet
- Saint Ebbo, Bishop of Sens
- Saint John of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Lombardy
- Saint Agilo, Monk of St Aper in Toul in France
- Saint Gebhard of Constance, Bishop of Constance in Germany
- Saint Malrubius, an hermit in Merns in Kincardineshire in Scotland, martyred by Norwegian invaders
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Hieromartyr Kuksha and St. Pimen the Faster, of the Near Caves in Kiev
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Michael Voskresensky, Priest,, and Stephen Nemkov, Priest,, all of Nizhni-Novgorod
- New Hieromartyrs John Lebedev and John Smirnov, Priests
- New Hieromartyr Methodius, Abbot, of Sukovo
- New Hieromartyr Aleksander Tsitserov, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Sokolov, Priest
- Saint Demetrius Kryuchkov the Confessor, Priest
Other commemorations
- Baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch Djan Darada, by Saint Philip the Evangelist, in Acts 8:26-40
- Uncovering of the relics of St. John Gashkevich, Archpriest, of Korma
- Slaying of Archimandrite Symeon, spiritual writer
- Repose of Archimandrite Sergius of New Valaam Monastery in Siberia
- Translation of the Relics of Saints Theognostus, Cyprian and Photius, Metropolitans of Moscow.
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