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February 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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February 27 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective February 27 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Martyrs Julian and his disciple Eunos (Kronion), at Alexandria (250- 252)

Martyrs Abundius, Alexander, Antigonus, Calanus, Januarius, Makarios, Severianus, Titianus and Fortunatus, and those martyred with them (c. 284–305)

Martyr Gelasius the Actor, of Heliopolis (297)

Saint Macarius of Jerusalem, Bishop of Jerusalem (334)

Saint Thalelæus of Syria, hermit, of Gabala in Syria (c. 460)

Saints Asclepius and Jacob of Nimouza, monks near Cyrrhus (5th century)

Saint Stephen, monk, of Constantinople (614)

Venerable Procopius the Confessor, of Decapolis (c. 750)

Saint Timothy of Caesarea, monk.

Saint Honorina (Honorine), an early martyr in the north of France.

Saint Comgan, Abbot of Glenthsen or Killeshin in Ireland (c. 565)

Saint Leander of Seville, Archbishop of Seville (600)

Saint Baldomerus (Galmier), by trade a locksmith in Lyon in France, who entered the monastery of St Justus (c. 650)

Saint Ælfnoth of Stowe (Alnoth), a hermit at Stowe near Bugbrooke, martyred by robbers (c. 700)

Saint Herefrith of Louth, Bishop of Lincolnshire (c. 873)

Saint John of Gorze, Abbot of Gorze (c. 975)

Venerable Titus, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1196)

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