Photine Samaritaine

Sainte Photine Samaritaine is a martyrdom of Ier century that the tradition of the orthodoxe Église identifies with the Samaritaine which met Jesus-Christ with the well of Jacob (Gospel of Jean, CH. 4). It is commemorated twice, the February 26th and Sunday of Samaritaine, 5th Sunday of Easter (or if one wants 4th Sunday after Easter).

Photine converted with the Christian faith with his/her four sisters, Phota, Photide, Parascève and Cyriaquie, and its two sons Jose and Victor. Certain documents indicate that it would have come to announce the message evangelic with Carthage. It that it would have, with his, would be carried out there its martyrdom by undergoing all kinds of particularly cruel tortures: one would have removed the sight to them before skinning them sharp. The martyrs would have converted two their torturers, the duke Sebastien and the Anatole officer: they became at once martyrs with Photine etb his/her companions.

The name of Photine means in Greek " Lumineuse" , Phota " Feux" , Photide " Girl of the feu" , Parascève " Preparation (of the Sabbath), i.e. Vendredi" , Cyriaquie " Seigneuriale".

To Paris, a vault built beside a well was formerly dedicated to Samaritaine. She was located on Right Bank of the Seine, very close to the Pont-Neuf. She is destroyed for a long time but during all the 20th century a department store called " Samaritaine" and located in the vicinity the memory perpetuated some.

See: List of the saints of the orthodoxe Church

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