Orthodox calendar: October 27 - feast day of St. Nicholas Svyatoshitranslated

22nd Week after Pentecost.

Today, October 27, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the martyr. Nazaria, Gervasia, Protasia, Kelsia (54-68); St. Paraskeva-Petka Serbskaya (XI); sschmch. Silvanus, presbyter of Gaza (IV); St. Nikola Svyatoshi (Svyatoslav), book. Chernigov, Pechersk miracle worker (1143); sschmch. Michael the Presbyter (1921); St. Ambrose Spanish Ep. Kamenets-Podolsky (1932); sschmch. Peter the Presbyter (1937); prmch. Maximilian (1938); Yakhromskaya Icon of the Mother of God (XV).

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The Monk Nikola Svyatosha (Svyatoslav), Prince of Chernigov, Pechersk Wonderworker, was the great-grandson of Grand Duke Yaroslav the Wise and the son of Prince David Svyatoslavich of Chernigov; in some sources the father of the saint is called a saint. The saint was the Prince of Lutsk, had a wife and children (his daughter was later married to the Prince of Novgorod, the Holy Blessed Vsevolod-Gabriel.

On February 17, 1106, the holy prince, leaving his family, took monastic vows at the Kiev-Pechersk monastery. Here St. Nicholas the Svyatosha underwent obedience with great humility: for three years he worked in a cookhouse, for which he chopped wood and carried water, and for the next three years he was a gatekeeper at the monastery. The saint planted a garden near his cell...