Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

December 27

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

  1. Third Day of the Feast of the Nativity.
  2. Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen
  3. St. Theodore Graptus
    "The Branded", confessor, brother of St. Theophanes the Hymnographer.
  4. St. Theodore, Archbishop of Constantinople.
    (services combined)
  5. St. Luke, monk of Tryglia.
  6. New Martyrs Tikhon, Archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests (1919).
  7. Repose of Athanasius of Grigorious Monastery, Mt. Athos (1953).

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