December 26 - 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.
Third Day of the Feast of the Nativity.
Apostle and Archdeacon Stephen the Protomartyr (34)
Saint Maximus, Pope of Alexandria (282)
Martyrs Maurice, with his son Photinus, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea (286–305) (see also: February 22)
Saint Theodore I, Patriarch of Constantinople (686)
Venerable Theodore Graptus (the Branded) of Palestine and Bithynia, Confessor, brother of Saint Theophanes the Confessor (840)
Venerable Luke, Abbot of the Monastery of the Deep Stream in Triglia in Bithynia.
Saint Fabiola, a patrician in Rome who gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work (399)
Saint Barlaam (Petrov), Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia (1802)
Venerable Abbot Boniface Vinogradsky, founder of St. Panteleimon Monastery, Kiev (ru) (1871)
New Hieromartyrs Tikhon Nikanorov, Archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests (1919)
New Virgin Martyr Antonina (Bryanskikh) (1937)
Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Therapont (Pherapont) of Belozersk and Mozhaisk, Luzhetsk (1514) (see also: May 27 - feast day)
Repose of Right-Believing Sviatoslav II Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev, son of Saint Yaroslav the Wise (1076) (see also: May 21 - feast day)
Repose of Nicholas Ilminsky, Missionary to the Tatars (1891)