Photina of Caesarea

Photina of Caesarea is a holy virgin venerated in the Catholic and the Orthodox Church. Her legend is linked with that of Saint Martinian of Caesarea in Palestine. It is told that Martinian, retired as a hermit to a deserted island half washed by the waves, threw himself into the sea when Photina was cast up there by a shipwreck, preferring to drown rather than bear the company of a beautiful woman; two dolphins saved him and carried him to shore. Photina remained on the island and continued the hermit life of the one before her.

She lived there alone for seven years and died. A fisherman and his wife, who supplied her a few times a year with food and wool to spin, found her body and took it to Caesarea, where her relics are said to have been kept. Her commemoration is on 13 February. The account is legend.