07 Works, Today, February 26th, is St. Photini, the Samaritan Woman’s Day, With Footnotes — #56
1 min readFeb 26, 2020
Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well, c. 1796
Oil on canvas
Height: 123.5 cm (48.6″); Width: 158.5 cm (62.4″)
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
St. Photini lived in first century Palestine. She was the Samaritan woman who Christ visited at the well asking her for water. It was she who accepted the “living water” offered her by Christ Himself; and told her townspeople that she had met the Christ. For this, she is sometimes recognized as the first to proclaim the Gospel of Christ. She converted her five sisters and her two sons. They all became tireless evangelists for Christ…