August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# 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.

## Icon gallery

* St. Hosius the Confessor, Bishop of Cordova.
* St. Liberius the Confessor, Pope of Rome.
* Venerable Poemen the Great, of Egypt.
* St. Monica of Hippo.
* St. Gebhard of Constance.
* St. Kuksha of the Kiev Caves.
* Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch (Menologion of Basil II).
* Sts. Theognostus, Cyprian and Photius, Metropolitans of Moscow.
