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== [[Image:Photini.jpg|right|frame|St . Photine the Samaritan Woman]]The holy and glorious Great-martyr '''Photine of Samaria and those with her ==''' (John 4:1also ''Photini'' or ''Svetlana''), [[Equal-to-42) "Photine" was the Samaritan woman who -Apostles]], encountered [[Christ ]] at the [[Jacob's Well (Nablus, West Bank)|wellof Jacob]]. In Rome, under Tradition relates that the persecutions of Emperor Nero [tba[Apostles]] [[baptism|baptized], she received ] her with the crown of martyrdom along name "Photine" meaning "enlightened one." Her [[feast day]]s are celebrated on [[February 26]] with those who suffered with her two sons (St Photinos and St JosesGreek tradition), their friend [[March 20]] (St Sebastianos, DukeSlavic tradition) and her five sisters (St Anatole, St Photo, St Photis, St Paraskeve and St Kyriake)the [[Pentecostarion#Fifth_Sunday_of_Pascha:_The_Samaritan_Woman|Sunday of the Samaritan Woman]].
They are all celebrated in ==Life==The [[Gospel of John]] (4:5-42) relates the Orthodox Church February 26encounter of Photine, the Samaritan woman, with Christ at Jacob's well. She repented after a very gentle and wise conversation with Christ and went and told her townspeople that she had met the Christ. For this, she is sometimes claimed as the first to proclaim the Gospel of Christ.
There is some literature to suggest that She [[conversion|converted]] her five sisters (Ss. Anatole, Photo, Photis, Paraskeve, and Kyriake) and her two sons (St Photine had six sons. Photinos, formerly known as Victor, and St. Joses). They all became tireless [[evangelism|evangelists]] for Christ.
== Meaning After the Apostles [[Apostle Paul|Paul]] and [[Apostle Peter|Peter]] were [[martyr]]ed, St. Photine and her family left their homeland of "Photine" ==Sychar, in Samaria, to travel to Carthage to proclaim the [[Gospel]] of Christ there.
== Biography ==[[Image:Samaritan Woman.JPG|thumb|left|St. Photine meets Christ at the well of Jacob.]]
== Sources ==[[Category:Biblical Saints]][[Category:Martyrs]][[Category:Saints]][[Category:1st-century saints]]
== External Links ==[[ro:Fotini samarineanca]][[el:Φωτεινή, Αγία]]
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In 66 AD, under the persecutions of Emperor Nero, they all achieved the crown of martyrdom, along with the Duke St. Sebastianos, the close friend of St. Photinos.
==Hymns==
[[Kontakion]] [http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/ian/read.php?16903]
:O Almighty Saviour, Who did pour forth water for the Hebrews from a solid rock:
:You did come to the Land of Samaria, and addressed a woman,
:whom You did attract to faith in You,
:and she has now attained life in the heavens everlastingly.
== Hymns External links==*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1& Troparia FSID=100846 Martyr Photina (Svetlana), the Samaritan Woman, and Her Sons] ([[OCA]])*[http://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints_view?contentid=538 The Holy Great Martyr Photine, the Samaritan Woman] ([[GOARCH]])Hymns *[http://www.orthodoxchristian.info/pages/photini.htm St Photini, The Samaritan Woman] <!-- ([[GOAA]]) --->
