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Fotini (Φωτεινή)

Also: Fotini, Photini

2 name days are kept for this name — Greek custom keeps them all; we show every one and never guess a “winner.”

Sunday of the Samaritan Woman · moves with Easter

⚠ unverified · primary · one source only — held out of calendar feeds until a second, independent source confirms it · why it moves
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman (Pascha+28) — the Samaritan woman IS St Photini. Offset single-source (02-data §2b). namedays.gr PHOTINI (*)(4) 10 May 2026 matches (same lineage).

26 February

⚠ unverified · alternate · one source only — held out of calendar feeds until a second, independent source confirms it
⚠ namedays.gr PHOTINI (3) 26 February. OCA 2026-02-26 does NOT list Photini (fetched; Slavic lineage differs) — divergence FLAGGED, not adjudicated. Dual convention with the movable feast — display both (02-data §2b).

Every feast here is currently unverified (⚠) — resting on a single source or a judgment call awaiting the printed synaxaria — shown for reference, but held out of calendar feeds until confirmed.

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