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January 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 29
All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 10 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
For January 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 15.
- Venerable Ephraim the Syrian (373)[1][2][3]
- Venerable Palladius the Hermit of Antioch, Wonderworker (4th century)[1][4][5]
- The Holy Two Martyrs, mother and daughter, by the sword.[6]
- Martyr Charita.[7]
- Saint Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh (7th century)[1][8][9]
- Venerable James the Ascetic, of Porphyreon (Porphyrianos) in Palestine.[1][10]
- Saint George Ugryn the Martyr (1015), brother of Ephraim of Novotorzhok[11]
- Venerable Ephraim of Novotorzhok, Abbot and Wonderworker, founder of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery (Novotorzhok) (1053)[1][12][13]
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- Saint Flavian, a deputy-prefect of Rome, martyred in Civitavecchia in Italy under Diocletian (ca. 304)[14]
- Saint Valerius, Bishop of Saragossa in Spain, with whom St Vincent served as deacon (315)[14]
- Saint Cannera (Cainder, Kinnera), Virgin recluse on the Isle of Inis Cathaig, Co. Clare and of Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland (ca. 530)[14][note 2]
- Saint John of Reomans (John of Reomay (Réomé)), in Gaul (544)[1][14][note 3]
- Saints Brigid and Maura, daughters of a Scottish Chieftain, Martyrs in Picardy while on pilgrimage to Rome.[14]
- Saint Antimus, one of the first Abbots of Brantôme in France (8th century)
- Saint Glastian, patron saint of Kinglassie in Fife in Scotland (830)[14][note 4]
- Saint Odo of Beauvais, Bishop of Beauvais (880)[14][note 5]
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- Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Pereyaslavl (ca. 1098)[1][15][16]
- Venerable Theodosius, founder of Totma Monastery (Vologda) (1568)[1][17][18]
New martyrs and confessors
- Saint Theodore, presbyter, Confessor (1933)[19]
- New Hiero-confessor Arsenius (Stadnitsky), Metropolitan of Tashkent and Turkestan (1936)[1]
- New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Sadkovsky), Bishop of Skopin (1938)[1][19]
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Pishchulin, Priest, at Simferopol (1938)[1][19]
- New Hieromartyr Bartholomew (Ratnykh), Hieromonk, at Feodosia (Crimea) (1938)[1][19]
- Olga Vasilievna Evdokimova, martyr, in the gulag (1938)[20][21][22][23]
- New Hiero-confessor Archimandrite Leontius (Stasevich) of Jablechna (Poland), who reposed at Mikhailovsk (Ivanovo) (Russia) (1972)[1][19]
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Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Pereyaslavl.
- The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar"). - A holy virgin who lived as an anchoress near Bantry in Ireland. She reposed after visiting St Senan and receiving communion. She was buried on St Senan's island off Enniscorthy.
- Born in Dijon in France, he became a hermit in Reomay. When disciples gathered around him, he fled and became a monk at Lérins. Here he learnt the traditions of St Macarius and on his return to Reomay, he and the monastery he founded there lived according to them.
- He made peace between the Picts and the Scots.
- Born near Beauvais in France, he gave up a military career to become a monk at Corbie. In 861 he became a very influential Bishop of Beauvais.
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