# January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 26 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 28
All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 9 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 27th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 14.

## Saints

* Venerable Peter of Egypt, disciple of Abba Lot (5th century)
* Saint Marciana the Queen, wife of Emperor Justin I (518-527), interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles.
* Saint Dimitrianos the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tamassos, Cyprus.
* Venerable Claudinus, monastic.
* Saint Elias II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (797)
* Saint Ashot I of Iberia (Ashot Kurapalates), first Bagrationi Prince of Georgia, martyred (830) (see also: January 29)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Julian of Sora, martyred under Antoninus Pius (ca. 150)
* Saint Julian of Le Mans, venerated as the first Bishop of Le Mans in France (3rd century) (see also: July 13 - East )
* Saint Devota, virgin-martyr in Corsica who expired on the rack in the persecution of Diocletian (303)
* Saint Avitus, venerated in the Canary Islands as their Apostle and first Bishop, martyred in Africa.
* Saints Datius, Reatrus (Restius) and Companions; and Datius (Dativus), Julian, Vincent and 27 Companions (ca. 500)
* Saint Maurus (Marius, Maur, May), founder of a monastery in Bodon (Bobacum) in France (ca. 555)
* Saint Natalis of Ulster, a monastic founder in the north of Ireland, he worked with St Columba (564)
* Saint Lupus of Châlons, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saone, famous for his charity to the afflicted (ca. 610)
* Saint Vitalian, Pope of Rome from 657 to 672 (672)
* Saint Emerius, founder and first Abbot of St Stephen of Bañoles in Catalonia in Spain (8th century)
* Saint Candida, mother of St Emerius, anchoress at the monastery of St Stephen of Bañoles in Spain (ca. 798)
* Saint Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch (800)
* Saint Theodoric II of Orleans, monk at Saint-Pierre-le-Vif in Sens in France, became Bishop of Orleans (1022)
* Saint Alruna of Cham (1045), recluse

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves Monastery (11th century)
* New Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople (1784)
* Saint Demetrius Klepinine, Priest, of Paris (1944)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Peter (Zverev) of Voronezh (1929)
* New Hieromartyr Paul Dobromislov, Protopresbyter of Alma-Ata (1940)
* Saint Anna Ivashkina, the Confessor of Ryazan (1948)
* Venerable Leonty (Stasevich) of Ivanovo, Archimandrite, New-Confessor (1972)
* New Hieromartyr Leontius the Mystic of Ternopil and Jablechna monastery, Poland (1972)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics (438) of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (407)
* Repose of Nun Neonilla of the Farther Davidov Convent (1875)
* Repose of Schema-nun Margarita (Lakhtionova) of Diveyevo Monastery (1997)

## Icon gallery

* Translation of the relics (437) of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople.
* Saint Ashot I of Iberia (Ashot Kurapalates), first Bagrationi King of Georgia.
* Stained glass depicting Julian of Le Mans, and 16 episodes of his life.
* Saint Devota, virgin-martyr in Corsica, patron-saint of both Corsica and Monaco.
* Relics of Saint Devota.
* Illustration of Saint Vitalian, Pope of Rome.
* New Hieromartyr Peter (Zverev) of Voronezh.