Orthodox saints and name days on September 27

Name days on September 27

Kallistratos, Callistratus, Aristarchos, Aristarchus, Akylina, Aquilina, Akilina

Saints and feasts of September 27

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  Kallistratos

  Martyr, Καλλίστρατος

  St. Kallistratos was a Christian soldier who suffered during the persecutions at the turn of the fourth century. Discovered at prayer, he confessed Christ before his commander and was cast into the sea sewn in a sack; delivered unharmed, his courage and deliverance brought forty-nine of his fellow soldiers to believe, and together they received the crown of martyrdom by the sword.

  Name days: Kallistratos, Callistratus

• Mark, Aristarchos and Zenon the Apostles

  Apostle, Μάρκος, Αρίσταρχος και Ζήνων

  St. Mark, called also John, is the kinsman of Barnabas named in the Acts and the Epistles; St. Aristarchos was the Apostle Paul's fellow prisoner and, tradition holds, bishop of Apamea in Syria; St. Zenon is the lawyer whom Paul commends to Titus, and is said to have been bishop of Diospolis.

  Name days: Aristarchos, Aristarchus

• Akylina of Zagliveri

  Holy Woman, Ακυλίνα

  St. Akylina was born at Zagliveri near Thessaloniki in the eighteenth century. Tradition relates that her father, having become a Muslim, was pressed to bring his daughter to Islam; raised in the faith by her mother, she refused before the Turkish judge and was beaten to death in 1764, at the age of eighteen.

  Name days: Akylina, Aquilina, Akilina

• Epicharis of Rome

  Holy Woman, Επίχαρις

  St. Epicharis was a Christian woman of Rome who confessed Christ in the persecution of Diocletian and, refusing to sacrifice, was tortured and beheaded.

• Ignatius of the Monastery of the Savior

  Venerable, Ιγνάτιος ο Ηγούμενος

  St. Ignatius was born in Cappadocia in the tenth century and became abbot of the monastery of Christ the Savior called Bathys Ryax, the Deep Stream. Tradition relates that he restored the monastery and was known for his humility and miracles.

• Peter of Krutitsa

  Hierarch, Πέτρος Κρουτίτσης

  St. Peter, Metropolitan of Krutitsa, was named locum tenens of the Patriarchal throne of Moscow after the death of St. Tikhon in 1925. Arrested by the Soviet authorities within the year, he spent the rest of his life in prisons and exile, refusing every offer of freedom in exchange for surrendering the Church's independence.

• Sabbatius of Solovki

  Venerable, Σαββάτιος του Σολοβέτσκ

  St. Sabbatius was a monk of the Kirillov monastery and of Valaam who, seeking greater solitude, went with the monk Herman to the uninhabited island of Solovki in the White Sea in 1429. He lived there in prayer for several years and reposed on the mainland in 1435, and his disciples afterward founded the great Solovki monastery.