Commemorated on February 26
Saint Photini was the Samaritan Woman who encountered Christ our Savior at Jacob’s Well (John 4:1-42). Photini was surprised that Christ, a Jew, would ask a Samaritan woman for a drink from the well. Christ spoke to her of the “life giving water” that the Messiah would provide. He told her to seek her husband, to which she replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus knew she had spoken correctly for she had had 5 husbands and the man with whom she now lived was not her husband. He then revealed himself to be Christ the Savior. Afterward she labored in spreading the Gospel in various places, and finally received the crown of martyrdom in Rome when she died with her two sons and five sisters, during the persecutions under the Emperor Nero.
