The Holy Great Martyr Photine, the Samaritan Woman.
Saint Photine was the Samaritan Woman who encountered Christ our Saviour at Jacob’s Well (John 4:1–42). Afterwards she labored in the spread of the Gospel in various places, and finally received the crown of martyrdom in Rome with her two sons and five sisters, during the persecutions under the Emperor Nero.
See also the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman.
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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