title: August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # 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.
  