December 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 29
Apostle Nicanor the Deacon.
Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II honoring the 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia.
Martyrs: Peter, Indes, Gorgonius by drowning; Zeno and Dorotheus by beheading; Mardonius and Hieromartyr Glycerius, by fire; Theophilus the Deacon by stoning; and Migdonius in a cesspool.
A primitive chapel dating from 6th to 11th centuries, at the cemetery of the church in the village named for Maughold.
December 28 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 30
December 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
…December 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 29 All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 10 by Orthodox Churches on Old Calendar…
The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) (Codex Egberti, 10th century)
Massacre of the Innocents.
The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) (Saint Louis Psalter, 1190–1200)
St. Trophimus of Arles, stained-glass window.