August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Aug. 26 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 28

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 9 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Saint Poemen the Great (450)
• Saint Poemen of Palestine (605)
• Saint Sabbas of Benephali
• Saint Liberius, pope of Rome (366)
• Saint Hosius the Confessor, Bishop of Cordova (359)
• Hieromartyr Kuksha and St. Pimen the Faster of the Kiev Caves (after 1114)
• Martyr Anthusa
• New Hieromartyrs Priest Michael Voskresensky (with 28 others) and Priest Stephen Nemkov (with 18 others), of Nizhni-Novgorod (1918)

Other commemorations

• Translation of the Relics of Saints Theognostus, Cyprian and Photius, Metropolitans of Moscow
• Icon of Great-Martyr Phanurius the newly-appeared of Rhodes

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar