Zaira

Zaira is a martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, who suffered in Spain in the 10th century. She is remembered on 21 October.

The news about her is very little, almost nothing. She was probably of Muslim origin. She is not named in the official texts of the Church, but perhaps was in some older edition of the Roman Martyrology. A present-⁠day catalogue of name days lists her as martyred in Spain during the Moorish occupation and remembered on 21 October. The name comes from Arabic (Zahira) and means the rose. In an age of forced coexistence and servitude of Christians under Muslim rule in Spain, there were many Christian martyrs.

Nothing else is known of her. She is a saint of the West, of the undivided Church; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known, and the sources are vague.