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)