August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 26 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 28

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 9 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

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)^[1][2][3][4]
• Saint Liberius the Confessor, Pope of Rome (366)^[1][5][6][7]
• Saint Arcadius, Eastern Roman Emperor (395-408)^{[8][note 2]}
• Saint Praulius, Archbishop of Jerusalem (422)^[1]
• Venerable Poemen the Great, of Egypt (450)^{[1][6][9][10][11]}
• Saint Sabbas, monk, of Benephali.^[1][12]
• Saint Poemen of Palestine (605)^[1][12][13]
• Great-martyr Phanourios the Newly-Revealed, of Rhodes.^{[1][6][12][14][15][note 3][note 4]}
• Martyr Anthousa the New, by drowning in a well.^{[6][12][16][note 5]}
• Venerable Theoklitos, a Magistros from Constantinople who retired from the world and took the monastic habit, becoming an ascetic on Mt. Olympos.^[17]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Virgin-martyr Euthalia, in Leontini in Sicily (252)^{[18][note 6]} (see also: March 2 - East)
• Martyrs Rufus and Carpophorus (Carpone), Martyrs in Capua under Diocletian (295)^{[11][18][note 7]}
• Saint Rufus of Capua, Bishop of Capua and disciple of St Apollinaris of Ravenna.^{[18][note 8]}
• Saint Narnus, first Bishop of Bergamo in Italy.^{[18][note 9]}
• Saint Monica of Hippo (Monica of Tagaste) (387)^{[18][note 10]} (see also: May 4 - East )
• Saint Caesarius of Arles, Bishop of Arles (543)^{[1][11][12][18][note 11]}
• Saint Licerius (Lizier), Bishop of Couserans (c. 548)^{[11][18][note 12]}
• Saint Syagrius (Siacre), Bishop of Autun and Confessor (600)^[11][18]
• Saint Etherius (Alermius), Bishop of Lyons (602)^[18]
• Saint Decuman of Watchet (Dagan) (706)^{[12][18][note 13][note 14]}
• Saint Ebbo, Bishop of Sens (740)^{[18][note 15]}
• Saint John of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Lombardy (813)^[11][18]
• Saint Agilo, Monk of St Aper in Toul in France (957)^{[18][note 16]}
• Saint Gebhard of Constance, Bishop of Constance in Germany (995)^{[18][note 17]}
• Saint Malrubius, an hermit in Merns in Kincardineshire in Scotland, martyred by Norwegian invaders (c. 1040)^[18]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Hieromartyr Kuksha and St. Pimen the Faster, of the Near Caves in Kiev (after 1114)^[1][12][20]

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)^[1][12]
• New Hieromartyrs John Lebedev and John Smirnov, Priests (1937)^[12]
• New Hieromartyr Methodius (Ivanov), Abbot, of Sukovo (Moscow) (1937)^[1][12]
• New Hieromartyr Aleksander Tsitserov, Priest (1939)^[12]
• New Hieromartyr Vladimir Sokolov, Priest (1940)^[12]
• Saint Demetrius Kryuchkov the Confessor, Priest (1952)^[12]

Other commemorations

• Baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch Djan Darada, by Saint Philip the Evangelist, in Acts 8:26-40 (1st century)^[21][22] (see also: January 4 and June 17)
• Uncovering of the relics (1991) of St. John Gashkevich, Archpriest, of Korma (1917)^[1]
• Slaying of Archimandrite Symeon (Kholmogorov), spiritual writer (1937)^[1]
• Repose of Archimandrite Sergius (Ozerov) of New Valaam Monastery in Siberia (1937)^[1][23]
• Translation of the Relics of Saints Theognostus, Cyprian and Photius, Metropolitans of Moscow.^[24]

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.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. None of the Synaxaria list him as a Saint. His memory is preserved only in the 'Jerusalemitic Canonarion' (p. 105; Edition of Archimandrite Kallistos). Perhaps the Church of Jerusalem had a specific reason for ranking him among the Saints.
3. He is not listed in the Synaxaria. He was "newly-revealed", when his icon was discovered accidentally in the 14th century in Rhodes, during exacavations on the southern section of the old city wall. There, an ancient church was discovered with many destroyed icons, among which was the well preserved icon of St. Phanourios (Greek: «ὁ ἅγιος Φανῶ»). This took place during the tenure of the Metropolitan of Rhodes "Neilos II Diassorianos" (1355-1369). The saint was depicted as young soldier holding a cross in his right hand, and a lighted taper, with twelve scenes from his life shown around the border of the icon.
4. Name days celebrated today include:

   • Fanourios (Φανούριος);
   • Fanouria (Φανουρία).
5. "The same day, the martyrdom of St. Anthusa the Younger, who was made a martyr by being cast into a well for the faith of Christ."^[11]
6. "At Lentini, in Sicily, St. Euthalia, virgin. Because she was a Christian she was put to the sword by her brother Sermilian, and went to her spouse."^[11]
7. Rufus was a Deacon.
8. "At Capua, in Campania, the birthday of St. Rufus, bishop and martyr, a patrician, who was baptized with all his family by blessed Apollinaris, disciple of St. Peter."^[11]
9. "At Bergamo, St. Narnus, who was baptized by blessed Barnabas, and consecrated by him first bishop of that city."^[11]
10. Born in Carthage in North Africa of Christian parents, she married a pagan and had three children. Through her patience and gentleness she converted her husband and through her prayers and tears her wayward son, who became Blessed Augustine. She reposed in Ostia near Rome and her relics are preserved in Rome.
11. Born in Châlon-sur-Saône in France, he became a monk at Lérins when young and then Bishop of Arles. He presided several Councils and founded a convent afterwards called after him at Arles, where his sister St Caesaria became abbess. He was zealous for decorum in liturgy and excelled as a preacher. His homilies still exist. During the distress caused by the siege of Arles in 508, he sold the treasures of his church to help the poor.
12. Born in Spain, probably in Lérida (Ilerda), he went to France and in 506 became Bishop of Couserans.
13. "DECUMAN, who is also called DECOMBE and DAGAN, belonged to a noble family in Wales; but desirous of a solitary life, forsook his home and crossed the Severn on a hurdle of reeds. He landed on the coast of Somerset, and finding a spot near Dunster which promised to satisfy his longings, established himself there. The place still bears his name, and is attached to a prebendal stall in the Cathedral of Wells, also called St. Decumans. The Saint is venerated as a Martyr, having been put to death by a murderer, in hatred of religion."^[19]
14. Born in Wales, he lived as a hermit at what is now St Decumans in Somerset in England, where he was martyred.
15. Born in Tonnerre, he was a monk at Saint-Pierre-le-Vif in Sens in France. He became Bishop of Sens which he saved in 725 when it was besieged by the Saracens.
16. He was invited to restore monastic discipline at Sithin (Saint Bertin).
17. Bishop of Constance in Germany (979-995). In 983 he founded the monastery of Petershausen near Constance where he was buried.

References

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4. RUSSIAN CHURCH OFFICIALLY ADDS SAINTS OF SPAIN, PORTUGAL TO LITURGICAL CALENDAR. Orthodox Christianity. January 4, 2019.
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14. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Φανούριος ὁ Μεγαλομάρτυρας ὁ Νεοφανής. 27 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. St Phanourius. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
16. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀνθοῦσα ἡ νέα. 27 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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19. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 414-418.
20. Hieromartyr and Venerable Kuksha of the Kiev Near Caves. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
21. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Βάπτιση τοῦ Αἰθίοπα Εὐνούχου ἀπὸ τὸν Ἅγιο Φίλιππο. 27 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
22. The Ethiopian Eunuch of Queen Candace. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
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24. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 63.

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Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 27 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 27 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 9 сентября (27 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).