December 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 28
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 9 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 27th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 14.Feasts
- Third Day of the Feast of the Nativity.
Saints
- Archdeacon Stephen the Protomartyr
- Saint Maximus, Pope of Alexandria
- Martyrs Maurice, with his son Photinus, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea
- Saint Theodore, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Venerable Theodore the Branded, of Palestine and Bithynia, Confessor
- Venerable Luke, Abbot of the Monastery of the Deep Stream in Triglia, in Bithynia.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Fabiola, a patrician in Rome who gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Abbot Boniface, founder of St. Panteleimon Monastery, Kiev
- New Hieromartyrs Tikhon, Archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests
- Virgin-Martyr Antonina
Other commemorations
- Uncovering of Relics of Venerable Pherapont of Mozhaisk, Luzhetsk.
- Repose of Nicholas Ilminsky, Missionary to the Tatars
- Repose of Archimandrite Agathangelus of Svir and Valaam
- Repose of Helen Ivanovna Motovilova
- Repose of Abbot Athanasius of Grigoriou Monastery, Mt. Athos
- Repose of Archimandrite Seraphim of the Pskov-Caves Monastery
Icons
- Icon of the Mother of God "the Merciful".
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