January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. * 1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. * 1564 – The Council of T ...

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January 28 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany. * 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession ...

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 9 by

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es on the Old Calendar. For January 27th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on

January 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 * 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders", the first written c ...

Saints

* Venerable Peter of Egypt, disciple of Abba Lot (5th century)January 27 / February 9
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). * Saint Marciana the Queen, wife of Emperor

Justin I Justin I ( la, Iustinus; grc-gre, Ἰουστῖνος, ''Ioustînos''; 450 – 1 August 527) was the Eastern Roman emperor from 518 to 527. Born to a peasant family, he rose through the ranks of the army to become commander of the imperial ...

(518-527), interred in the

Church of the Holy Apostles The Church of the Holy Apostles ( el, , ''Agioi Apostoloi''; tr, Havariyyun Kilisesi), also known as the ''Imperial Polyándreion'' (imperial cemetery), was a Byzantine Eastern Orthodox church in Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman E ...

. Συναξαριστής.
27 Ιανουαρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). * Saint Dimitrianos the Wonderworker, Bishop of

Tamassos Tamassos ( Greek: Ταμασσός) or Tamasos (Greek: Τἀμασος) – names Latinized as Tamassus or Tamasus – was a city-kingdom in ancient Cyprus, one of the ten kingdoms of Cyprus. It was situated in the great central plain of the is ...

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. * 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 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...

'')

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Julian of Sora, martyred under Antoninus Pius (ca. 150)January 27
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Saint

Julian of Le Mans Saint Julian of Le Mans (french: Saint Julien du Mans; la, Iulianus; 3rd century; perhaps 4th century) is a saint venerated in both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church, honored as the first bishop of Le Mans. His feast day is 27 January. The ...

, venerated as the first Bishop of Le Mans in France (3rd century) (''see also:

July 13 Events Pre-1600 * 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. * 1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots. *1260 – The Livon ...

- East '') * Saint Devota, virgin-martyr in Corsica who expired on the rack in the persecution of Diocletian (303) * Saint Avitus, venerated in the

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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 Natalis (Saint Naile, Naal) (died 564) was a 6th-century Irish monk and saint. His father was Aenghus, who was 3rd in descent from Lughaidh, King of Munster. He died in 564. He was a spiritual student of Columba and founded monasteries throug ...

, 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 Vitalian ( la, Vitalianus; died 27 January 672) was the bishop of Rome from 30 July 657 to his death. His pontificate was marked by the dispute between the papacy and the imperial government in Constantinople over Monothelitism, which Rome ...

, 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

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(1022)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves Monastery (11th century)February 9 / January 27
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). * New Martyr Demetrius at

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

(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)The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 10. * 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

relic In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangi ...

s (438) of St.

John Chrysostom John Chrysostom (; gr, Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of ...

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

Icon gallery

File:Menologion of Basil 061.jpg, Translation of the

s (437) of St.

, Archbishop of Constantinople. File:Aschot I. (Iberien).jpg, Saint Ashot I of Iberia (''Ashot Kurapalates''), first Bagrationi King of Georgia. File:Le Mans - St Julien SGW (large version).jpg, Stained glass depicting

, and 16 episodes of his life. File:Saintdevota.jpg, Saint Devota, virgin-martyr in Corsica, patron-saint of both Corsica and Monaco. File:Reliques de Sainte Dévote.jpg, Relics of Saint Devota. File:Pope Vitalian Illustration.jpg, Illustration of Saint

, Pope of Rome. File:Peter (Zverev).jpg, New Hieromartyr Peter (Zverev) of Voronezh.

Notes

References

Sources

January 27 / February 9
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
February 9 / January 27
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
January 27
OCA - The Lives of the Saints. * The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 10.

Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. *
The Roman Martyrology
'' Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 27–28. * Rev. Richard Stanton.
A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries
'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 37–38. Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
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ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
27 Ιανουαρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *
27 января (ст.ст.) 9 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). {{DEFAULTSORT:January 27 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) January in the Eastern Orthodox calendar