Paul of San Zoilo

Paul of San Zoilo was a deacon and martyr in Córdoba, in Muslim-⁠ruled Spain, beheaded on 20 July 851, in the time of the emir Abd ar-⁠Rahman II.

He belonged to the monastery of Saint Zoilus in Córdoba and ministered to Christians imprisoned by the Muslim authorities, caring for them in prison. For confessing the faith he was beheaded. His relics are enshrined in the church of Saint Zoilus.

A brother of his, Luis, was martyred in his turn in 855 and is remembered on 30 April.

Paul is honored on 20 July as a saint of the undivided Church, mostly in the West; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.