title: October 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # October 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  October 26 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 28
  
  All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 9 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For October 27th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 14.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Saint Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate (1st century)
  * Martyrs Capitolina and Eroteis, of Cappadocia (304)
  * Martyrs Mark of the island of Thasos and those with him (304)
  * Martyr Nestor of Thessaloniki (306)
  * Martyrs Mabrianos and Valentine.
  * Saint Kyriakos II, Patriarch of Constantinople (606)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Florentius, a martyr in Trois-Châteaux in Burgundy in France (3rd century)
  * Martyrs Vincent, Sabina and Christeta, martyrs in Avila in Spain (303)
  * Saint Gaudiosus of Naples, Bishop of Abitina in North Africa (c. 455)
  * Saint Namatius (Namace), ninth Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 462)
  * Saint Abbán (Eibbán, Moabba), founder of many monasteries, mostly in the south of Ireland (c. 520)
  * Saint Oran of Iona (Otteran, Odhran, Odran), monk of Iona Abbey (c. 563)
  * Saint Desiderius of Auxerre, Bishop of Auxerre in France (c. 625)
  * Saint Colman of Senboth-Fola (Colman Na Fiachrach), a disciple of St Aidan of Ferns, he was Abbot of Senboth-Fola (Seuboth-Folu, Seanboth-Colmain), near Ferns (c. 632)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Venerable Nestor the Chronicler, of the Kiev Caves (1114)
  * Venerable Nestor the Unlettered (not the Chronicler), of the Far Kiev Caves (14th century)
  * Venerable Demetrius of Basarabov in Bulgaria (13th century, or 1685) (see also: October 26 )
  * Saint Alexander (Okropiridze), Bishop of Guria and Mingrelia, Georgia (1907)
  
  ### New Martys and Confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr Sergius (Chernukhin), Abbot, of Danilov Monastery, Moscow (1942)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Narrative about the Iberians, involving a certain ascetic woman who healed the sick, including their queen, converting many to Christ (c. 332)
  * Uncovering of the relics (1539), in Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, of St. Andrew, Prince of Smolensk (1390)
  * Repose of Hieroschemamonk Antiochus of Svir, disciple of Elder Theodore of Svir (1832)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * St. Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate.
  * Martyrs Capitolina and Eroteis, of Cappadocia.
  * Martyr Nestor of Thessaloniki.
  * St. Namatius, Bishop of Clermont.
  * Saint Demetrius of Basarabov, Bulgaria.
  * St. Alexandre Oqropiridze and his nephew Leonide Oqropiridze.
  * St. Andrew, Prince of Smolensk.
  