April 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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April 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Apr. 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 27All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 9 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Hieromartyr Basil of Amasea, bishop*Saint Stephen of Perm, bishop*Righteous Virgin Glaphyra*Saint Ioannicius of Devich in Serbia...

 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 28
April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Apr. 27 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 29All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 11 by Old Calendarists-Saints:* Martyrs Aphrodisius, Caralippus, Agapius, and Eusebius * Saint Patricius, Bishop of Prusa, in Bithynia, Martyr...



All fixed commemorations
Synaxarium
Synaxarion, Synexarion, pl. Synaxaria —Latin: Synaxarium, Synexarium—the name given in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches to a compilation of hagiographies corresponding roughly to the martyrology of the Roman Church.There are two kinds of synaxaria:*Simple...

 below celebrated on May 10 by Old Calendarists
Old calendarists
The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...


Saints

  • Apostle of the Seventy
    Seventy Disciples
    The seventy disciples or seventy-two disciples were early followers of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke . According to Luke, the only gospel in which they appear, Jesus appointed them and sent them out in pairs on a specific mission which is detailed in the text...

     and Hieromartyr Symeon the Kinsman of the Lord
    Simeon of Jerusalem
    Saint Simeon of Jerusalem, son of Clopas, was a Jewish Christian leader and according to most Christian traditions the second Bishop of Jerusalem .-Life:Eusebius of Caesarea gives the list of these bishops...

     (107)
  • Martyr Anthimus of Nicomedia
    Anthimus of Nicomedia
    Anthimus of Nicomedia , was the bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia, where he was beheaded during a persecution of Christians, traditionally placed under Diocletian , in which "rivers of blood" flowed....

    , Bishop (303)
  • Martyr Poplionus (Poplion, Popllon)
  • Martyr Lollionus the New (Longinus the New)
  • Saint Pollion
    Saint Pollio
    Saint Pollio of Cybalae is venerated as a Christian martyr who was executed for his faith during the persecutions of Diocletian. He was a lector in the city of Cybalae in the Roman province of Pannonia....

     the Reader (Pollio), of Cibalis in Pannonia
    Pannonia
    Pannonia was an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia....

    , burnt alive under Diocletian (306)
  • Saint Liberalis of Treviso, priest from the area near Ancona in Italy who worked for the conversion of the Arians and suffered much at their hands (400)
  • Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Brescia (427)
  • Saint Maughold
    Maughold
    Saint Maughold of Man is venerated as the patron saint of the Isle of Man...

    , Bishop of the Isle of Man (ca.488)
  • Saint Assicus
    Assicus
    Saint Assicus was the first bishop of Elphin, Ireland, and venerated as the patron saint of that place. Converted to Christianity by Saint Patrick, he is said to have been Patrick's worker in iron....

     (Ascicus, Tassach), first bishop of Elphin
    Elphin, County Roscommon
    Elphin, sometimes spelt Elfin , is a village in north County Roscommon, Ireland. It forms the southern tip of a triangle with Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon to the north west and north east respectively. It is at the junction of the R368 and R369 regional roads...

    , Ireland, converted to Christianity by Saint Patrick (490)
  • Saint Tertullian, eighth Bishop of Bologna in Italy (490)
  • Saint Enoder (Cynidr, Kenedr, Quidic) (6th c.)
  • Saint Eulogius the Hospitable of Constantinople (6th c.)
  • Saint Nicon, abbot of the Monastery of St. Gerasimus (6th c.)
  • Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger
    Simeon Stylites the Younger
    Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger [also known as 'St. Simeon of the Admirable Mountain'] is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Churches of Eastern and Latin Rites...

     of Cilicia (597), and his brother George
  • Saint Winewald, Abbot of Beverley in England (ca.731)
  • Saint Floribert of Liège
    Floribert of Liège
    Floribert of Liège was a bishop of Liège, and a saint of the Catholic Church, celebrated on 27 April. He was the son of the French-born Hubert of Liège, also a saint, and succeeded on his death in 727.-External links:...

     (746)
  • Saint John of Cathares, abbot of Cathares Monastery at Constantinople (839)
  • Saint Stephen, abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Vladimir
    Vladimir
    Vladimir is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow along the M7 motorway. Population:...

     in Volhynia
    Volhynia
    Volhynia, Volynia, or Volyn is a historic region in western Ukraine located between the rivers Prypiat and Southern Bug River, to the north of Galicia and Podolia; the region is named for the former city of Volyn or Velyn, said to have been located on the Southern Bug River, whose name may come...

     (1094)
  • New Hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of Phanarion and Neokhorion (1601)
  • New Martyr Elias (Ardunis) of Mount Athos
    Mount Athos
    Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...

     (1686)
  • New Hieromartyrs Paul and John, priests, and martyrs Peter, Nicholas, Auksentius, Sergius and Virgin-martyr Anastasia (1922)
  • Virgin-martyr Mary (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr John, priest (1941)

Other Commemorations

  • Incineration of the relic
    Relic
    In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...

    s of Saint Sabbas
    Saint Sava
    Saint Sava was a Serbian Prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church, the founder of Serbian law and literature, and a diplomat. Sava was born Rastko Nemanjić , the youngest son of Serbian Grand Župan Stefan Nemanja , and ruled the appanage of Hum briefly in...

    , first archbishop of Serbia, by Sinan Pasha
    Sinan Pasha
    Sinan Pasha or Sinan Pashë Kahremanliu was an Albanian Grand Vizier, Ottoman military commander and statesman.-Life:...

     (1595)
  • Glorification (1999) of New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), archbishop of Verey
    Vereya
    Vereya is a town in Naro-Fominsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Protva River southwest of Moscow. Population: 6,500 ....

    (1929)

Sources

  • April 27/May 10. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • May 10 / April 27. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • April. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
  • April 27. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • April 27. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • April 27. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources
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