July 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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July 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 27-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 8 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Hieromartyrs Hermolaus, Hermippus, and Hermocrates at Nicomedia...

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July 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
July 27 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 29-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 10 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon and Parmenas, deacons of the Seventy Apostles...


Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 9 by Old Calendarists
Old Style and New Style dates
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Saints

  • Holy Greatmartyr
    Martyr
    A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

     and Healer Panteleimon (305
    305
    Year 305 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Valerius...

    )
  • Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

    , Bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

     of Greater Macedonia; and Saint
    Saint
    A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

    s Sabbas
    Sabbas
    Sabbas is the name of a number of Christian saints:* Sabbas the Sanctified - Palestinian Monastic* Sabbas the Goth martyred 12 April, 372, by being drowned in the Musaeus, a tributary of the Danube...

    , Angelar, Nahum, and Horasdus, disciples of Saints Cyril
    Saints Cyril and Methodius
    Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...

     and Methodius (916
    916
    Year 916 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.- Asia :* Abaoji of the Khitan empire adopts Chinese court rituals....

    )
  • Saint Anthusa, Abbess
    Abbess
    An abbess is the female superior, or mother superior, of a community of nuns, often an abbey....

     of Mantinea in Asia Minor
    Asia Minor
    Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...

     and her 90 monastic sisters (8th century)
  • Blessed Nicholas Kochanov, Fool-for-Christ at Novgorod (1392)
  • Saint Iosaph of Moscow, metropolitan
    Metropolitan bishop
    In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital.Before the establishment of...

     (1555)
  • Martyr Christodulus (1777)
  • Saint Manuel, monk
    Monk
    A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...


Other commemorations

  • Repose of Pulcheria of Viatka, Abbess of Nativity Convent (1890)
  • Commemoration of the canonization
    Canonization
    Canonization is the act by which a Christian church declares a deceased person to be a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the canon, or list, of recognized saints. Originally, individuals were recognized as saints without any formal process...

     of Saint Herman of Alaska
    Herman of Alaska
    Saint Herman of Alaska was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.-Biography:Saint Herman was born in the town of Serpukhov in the Moscow Diocese around 1756...

     (1970)
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