Holy Martyr Photini of Samaria

February 26th or March 20th
Troparion (Tone 3)
Thou wast illumined by the Holy Spirit and refreshed by the streams of Christ the Saviour. Having drunk the Water of Salvation thou didst give copiously to the thirsty. O holy Great Martyr Photini, Equal-to-the Apostles, entreat Christ our God that our souls may be saved.

St. Photini was the woman at the well in John 4. Her name means "light", because she received the light from the Lightgiver, Jesus Christ, and spread it wherever she went. Her two sons, Victor and Josiah, and five sisters, Anatolia, Phota, Photida, Paraskeva and Kyriake, all followed her into faith in Christ and apostolic witness. They went to Carthage in Africa and were arrested for sharing the Gospel. They were taken to Rome to suffer before Nero. Photini brought Nero's daughter, Domnina, to faith in Christ. All of them were martyred after imprisonment and torture at the hands of Nero's men. Because of her testimony, St. Photini was thrown into a well, and buried alive. She thus entered into the Kingdom of the neverending Day of the Lord.
Her scroll reads: "O Lord, give me this living water so that I may not thirst."

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