April 27 

April 27 Great and Holy Saturday Hieromartyr Simeon, the kinsman of the Lord (107). Ven. Stephen, Abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Vladimir in Volyn’ (1094). St. Eulogius the Hospitable, of Constantinople (4th c.). Great and Holy Saturday Great and Holy Saturday is the day on which Christ reposed in the tomb. The Church calls this day the Blessed Sabbath. “The great Moses mystically foreshadowed this day when