Ss. Zoe and Photina
Commemorated February 13
Saint Photina remained on the island, where she spent six years in solitude, and then she gave up her soul to God. Everything about her death was reported by that same sailor who brought her food, just as he had done previously for St Martinian. The sailor brought the body of St Photina to Palestinian Caesarea, where it was solemnly buried by the bishop and clergy.
Ss. Zoe and Photina are celebrated on the same day with St Martinian.
Troparion
With the streams of thy tears thou didst quench the flames of temptations, O blessed one,
and taming the billows of the sea and the raging of wild beasts, thou didst cry out:
Most glorious art Thou, O Almighty, Who savest me from fire and tempest!
Kontakion
As a skilled ascetic of piety,
an honored athlete by volition,
and an inhabitant and citizen of the desert,
we praise the ever-honorable Martinian in hymns, as is mee;
for he trampled the serpent underfoot.