Is Saint Photini a recognized Saint by Latin Rite?

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Hi: Hope this is the right place for this. Febuary 26th is the feast day of St. Photini in the Orthodox Rite. She is supposed to be the Samaritan “Woman at the well” In John 4:5-42 which will be read on Febuary 24th.
Tried to check on-line and not successful.
Thank you for your help.

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<<Hi: Hope this is the right place for this. Febuary 26th is the feast day of St. Photini in the Orthodox Rite. She is supposed to be the Samaritan “Woman at the well” In John 4:5-42 which will be read on Febuary 24th.
Tried to check on-line and not successful.
Thank you for your help.>>

She may not be on the Latin Calendar, but that doesn’t itself mean she’s not a saint. The last paragraph of the Roman Martyrology for each day always says, "And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins. "

St. Photini (whose name means “Elightened”; Slavic is Svetlana) is commemorated on the Fifth Sunday of Pascha by the Byzantine Catholic Churches as well, so what does this tell you?
 
It tells me that you are nice enough to help me out with this question. It would be interesting to know where the information came from that was used to make her a Saint in the Orthodox rite.
Ineresting story about her that I found on-line.
Thank you
 
I’d never heard of this saint before, and therefore, can’t recall her name being mentioned/celebrated in the Latin Rite.
However, it’s interesting to learn the name of the Samaritan woman.
 
She was supposed to have been killed by Nero along with her seven children: (4 daughers: Anatoli, Photo, Photes, Paraskevi and Kyriaki. - two sons, Victor later called Photinos and Joseph.
I am teaching the Woman at the Well next Sunday for RCIA, and was trying to find out if anything was known about her.
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Alas, the links to the Prologue from Ochrid are not working, and neither is my scanner, so I can’t provide the entry for St. Photini. (The Prologue corresponds to the Roman Martyrology, edited by St. Nicholas Velimirovich, who labored in the USA and died at St. Tikhon’s Seminary)
 
So that is wht they call it…! The Prologue. Thanks for the information.
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