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