September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

The Eastern Orthodox cross

September 26 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 28

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 10 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For September 27th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 14.

Saints[]

• Apostles Mark of Bibloupolis,^{[1][note 2]} Aristarchus,^[3] and Zenas the Lawyer,^[4] of the Seventy (1st century)^{[5][6][7][note 3]}
• Martyr Epicharis of Rome (c. 298)^{[5][7][8][9][note 4]}
• Martyr Gaiana.^{[7][10][11][note 5]}
• Hieromarytr Philemon the Bishop, and martyr Fortunatus.^[7][11][12]
• Holy 15 martyrs drowned at sea.^{[11][13][note 6]}
• Martyrs Callistratus of Carthage^[14] and 49 martyrs^[15] with him (304)^[5][7][16]
• Saint Flavian I of Antioch, Archbishop of Antioch (404)^[5][17][18] (see also: February 16)
• Venerable Ignatius, Abbot of the Monastery of the Deep Stream in Asia Minor (963-975)^{[5][7][19][20]}

Pre-Schism Western saints[]

• Saint Caius of Milan (Gaius), by tradition the first Bishop of Milan in Italy (1st century)^{[21][note 7]}
• Saint Adheritus (Abderitus, Adhentus, Adery), a Greek by birth, he succeeded St Apollinaris as Bishop of Ravenna in Italy (2nd century)^{[21][note 8]}
• Saint Deodatus, a martyr in Sora in central Italy.^[21]
• Saints Fidentius and Terence, martyrs venerated in Todi in central Italy.^{[21][note 9]}
• Saints Florentinus and Hilary, two hermits martyred in France by barbarians.^{[21][note 10]}
• Saint Ceraunus (Ceran), Bishop of Paris in France (c. 614)^[21]
• Martyr Sigeberht of East Anglia, King of the East Angles (635)^[5][17][21]
• Saint Barrog (Barrwg, Barnoch, Barry), a disciple of St Cadoc of Wales, hermit (7th century)^{[17][21][note 11]}
• Saint Hiltrude, a hermit near the monastery of Liessies in France (c. 790)^[2][21]
• Saints Adolphus and John, two brothers born in Seville in Spain of a Moorish father and a Christian mother, martyred in Cordoba under Abderrahman II (c. 850)^{[21][note 12]}
• Saint Marcellus, born in Ireland, he became a monk at St Gall in Switzerland (c. 869)^[21]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints[]

• Venerable Sabbatius, Wonderworker of Solovki (1435)^{[5][7][23][24][25]}
• New Hieromartyr Anthimus the Georgian, Metropolitan of Wallachia(1716)^{[5][17][26][note 13]}
• New Virgin-martyr Aquilina of Zagliveri, Thessalonica (1764)^{[5][7][28][29]}
• Saint Archippus, Schemamonk of Glinsk Hermitage (1896)^[5]
• Saint Rachel, Schemanun of Borodino Convent (1928)^[5][17]

New martyrs and confessors[]

• New Hieromartyr Demetrius Shishokin,^[30] Priest (1918)^[17][23]
• New Hieromartyr Herman (Kosolapov),^[31] Bishop of Volsk (1919)^{[5][17][23][note 14]}
• New Hieromartyr Michael Platonov, Priest (1919)^[17][23]
• New Hieromartyr Peter (Polyansky), Metropolitan of Krutitsy (1937)^{[5][11][17][23][32]}
• New Hieromartyr Theodore Bogoyavlensky, Priest (1937)^[17][23]

Other commemorations[]

• Commemoration of the vision and speechlessness of Zachariah.^{[11][note 15]}

Icon gallery[]

• 

  Epicharis of Rome.

• 

  Martyrs Callistratus of Carthage and 49 martyrs.

• 

  New Hieromartyr Anthimus the Georgian, Metropolitan of Wallachia.

• 

  New Hieromartyr Herman (Kosolapov), Bishop of Volsk.

• 

  New Hieromartyr Peter (Polyansky), Metropolitan of Krutitsy.

Notes[]

References[]

Sources[]

• September 27/October 10. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• October 10 / September 27. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• September 27. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• 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. 72.
• The Twenty-Seventh Day of the Month of September. Orthodoxy in China.
• September 27. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 298–299.
• 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. p. 460.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 27 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 27 Σεπτεμβρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
• (in Greek) 27/09/2016. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 10 октября (27 сентября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 27 сентября по старому стилю / 10 октября по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год.