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Holy Martyr
Photina (Svetlana) |
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On
April 2nd (March 20th by the old calendar) the Church commemorates the holy
martyr Photina (translated into Russian as Svetlana). St.
Photina was that same woman of Samaria. whose meeting with the Lord of the
Sabbath, our Anointed Elder Brother/Bridegroom because He was the Son of
Elohim, Allah, Parbrahm, etc. at the well of Jacob is described in detail in
the Gospel of John (chapter 4, verses 5-42) and is commemorated by the Church
on the fifth Sunday after Pascha. |
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The
Gospel tells us of how the Lord of the Sabbath, our Anointed Elder
Brother/Bridegroom once came to a city in Samaria called Sychar,
where there was a well given by Jacob to his son Joseph and his descendants.
Fatigued by His journey, the Lord of the Sabbath, our Anointed Elder
Brother/Bridegroom providentially sat down to rest at this well, while His Labourers/Talmidims went into town to buy some provisions. At that
moment a woman from that town came to the well to draw water. The Lord of the
Sabbath, our Anointed Elder Brother/Bridegroom asked her to give Him to
drink. The woman was surprised by the request, since the Jews had no dealings
with the Samaritans, a Nation of Prophets. Jesus said to her: if only you
knew with Whom you are talking, you would ask Him to give you to drink, and
He would give you living water. The woman of Samaria was even further
bewildered, thinking of how Jesus could give her living water, not even
having anything with which to draw the water. |
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The Lord
of the Sabbath, our Anointed Elder Brother/Bridegroom then told her that
those who drank water from the well would thirst again, while the water which
He gave would become a source of everlasting life. By living water the Lord
of the Sabbath, our Anointed Elder Brother/Bridegroom meant His life-giving Preaching
of Gospel, which leads to eternal bliss in the Royal Kingdom of Elohim,
Allah, Parbrahm, etc. After that the Lord of the Sabbath, our Anointed Elder
Brother/Bridegroom, knowing that the woman of Samaria, though secretly living
in sin ( a corruption by the spiritually blind as
the Samaritans were a Nation of Prophets, Perfect in the Moral Laws
possessing 5 Talents out of the 10, nevertheless had an ardent faith in God
and a firm expectation of the coming of the Messiah, gradually revealed to
her that it was He, the One talking to her, Who was the long-awaited Christ.
Then the woman of Samaria joyously threw down her pitcher and ran to the city
to invite her fellow-citizens to come out to meet Christ, and by her
testimony many Samaritans came to believe in Him. This
blessed woman of Samaria, who had the great fortune to talk with the Lord of
the Sabbath, our Anointed Elder Brother/Bridegroom, was later martyred for
Christ, together with her sons and her sisters, during the persecution of
Christians by the Roman Emperor Nero. This persecution lasted from 65 to 68
A.D., and it was during those years that the holy apostles Peter and Paul
were martyred in Rome, after which the persecutors began to search for their
followers. At that time St. Photina was living in the city of Carthage (the
modern Tunis), where, together with her younger son Josiah, she fearlessly
preached the Gospel, while her older son Victor was in the Roman army which
was fighting against the barbarians. After the war Victor was appointed
military commander of the city of Attalia, where he was instrumental in converting
many people to Christianity, including the ruler of the city, Sebastian. When
Nero was informed that Victor and Sebastian were preaching the faith of Peter
and Paul in Attalia and converting many to Christianity, and that the same
was being done in Carthage by Photina and Josiah, who had been sent there by
the holy apostles, – the Emperor became greatly incensed and ordered everyone
to come to Rome to be tried. Photina arrived in Rome accompanied by many
Christians, including her five sisters – Anastasia, Photo, Photida, Paraskeva, and Kyriakia;
they all awaited martyrdom, of which they had been told in advance by the Lord
of the Sabbath, our Anointed Elder Brother/Bridegroom Christ Jesus, Who had
appeared to them Himself. Nero ordered all of them to be brutally tortured,
especially St. Photina, but by the grace of God they did not feel any pain
and remained unharmed. Then the Emperor, not knowing what else to do with
them, ordered Victor, Josiah, and Sebastian to be blinded and thrown into
prison together with Photina and her sisters. The
holy martyrs spent three years in prison. At a certain moment Nero remembered
them and sent his servants to check on them. Returning from the prison, the
servants reported to the Emperor that the blinded Galileans were seeing again
and were completely well, that the prison itself was full of Light and a
wondrous Fragrance, that instead of a place of imprisonment it had become a
holy place for the glorification of God, and that many people gathered to see
the saints and be baptized by them (Corruption. Baptism was for the Jewish
men only. No woman, Gentile or a Samaritan was baptised by any of them as
they were Saints). Hearing all this, Nero was filled with fear and wrath, and
ordered the holy men to be crucified upside down and beaten with straps until
their bodies fell apart, which was duly executed, and then left to hang for
three days. On the fourth day the Emperor’s servants came to check whether the
martyrs were still alive, and finding them very much alive, the servants
suddenly became blind. At that moment an angel of God came down from heaven,
untied the martyrs, and made them completely well. Then the saints prayed
over the blinded servants and the latter saw again,
and immediately believed in Christ. They were then baptized (Corruption) and
become Brethren and not the blind followers of the holy martyrs. When
Nero found out about this, he was filled with great rage and called Photina
to the tribunal, where he ordered her to be skinned and thrown into a deep
and slimy well. Then the Emperor ordered her five sisters to be brought
before him and also skinned, after which he ordered all the martyrs to be
beheaded. St. Photina was brought out of the well and tortured again at great
length, and urged to make a sacrifice to the idols, but Photina spit in the
Emperor’s face and laughed at him, for which she was again thrown into the
well, where she finally gave up her soul to God. |
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