August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
August 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 29
All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 10 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 28, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 15.
Saints
Righteous Hezekiah, King of Judah- Righteous Anna the Prophetess, daughter of Phanuel
- Holy 33 Martyrs of Heraclea, by fire.
- Martyrs Irene and Sophia, by the sword.
- Martyrs Diomedes and Laurence, shot with arrows after being tied to a tree.
- Hieromartyr Damon.Venerable Moses the Black, of Scetis
- Martyr Queen Shushanik of Georgia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Hermes and Companions, martyrs in Rome under the judge Aurelian
- Saint Pelagius of Constance, a child-martyr put to death in Pannonia during the persecution of Roman Emperor Numerian
- Saint Julian of Auvergne
- Saints Fortunatus, Gaius and Anthes, martyrs near Salerno in Italy under Diocletian
- Blessed Augustine of Hippo, Bishop of Hippo
- Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Saintes
- Saint Vivianus, Bishop of Saintes and Confessor
- Saint Facundinus, Bishop of Taino in Umbria
- Saint Adelindis, founder of Buchau Abbey
- Saint Gorman, a monk at Reichenau in Germany who became Bishop of Schleswig in Denmark
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Amphilochius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia
- Saint Theodore of the Kiev Caves, Prince of Ostrog in Volhynia
- Saint Sabbas, founder and Abbot of Krypetsk Monastery
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs of Zilantov Monastery in Kazan :
- New Hieromartyr Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna, Metropolitan of Smyrna
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Georgievsky, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Basil Sokolsky, Priest
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of Saint Rumwold of Buckingham, infant saint Uncovering of the relics of St. Job of Pochaev, Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaev Synaxis of the Saints of the Kiev Caves Lavra, whose relics repose in the Far Caves of St. Theodosius.
- Repose of Elder Philaret of Novo-Spassky Monastery
- Repose of Archbishop Dmitri Royster of Dallas