Saint
Photina of Blachernae
A holy woman who lived outside the Blachernae gate of Constantinople.
- Feast
- August 20old style September 2
- Era
- unknown
Life
Saint Photina of Blachernae appears on 20 August in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style) as "Saint Photini outside the gate of Blachernae" in Constantinople. Saint.gr has no biography of her and notes that the saint's existence and the date of her feast are not cross-checked by other sources. The synaxarion supposes that it may simply be the consecration of a church of Saint Photini at that place. Nothing certain can be said about a person of this name.
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