Holy Martyr Photina (Svetlana) – Story by a Russian Metropolitan.
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but the nectar is there.
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.
The Samaritan woman
speaks with the Lord
The Samaritan woman
speaks with the Lord of the Sabbath, our Anointed Elder Brother/Bridegroom, the very Son of Elohim.
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.
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.
Here are the Names of
the Five Husbands of the Samaritan Woman defined in Trinity:-
Much confused Trinity
is explained:-
www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/trinity.pdf
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John's baptism:-
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Family of God:- http://www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/FamGod-1.htm
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