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Saint

Zebennus

A bishop, remembered in the calendars of the Church.

Feast
November 13old style November 26
Era
3rd century

Life

Saint Zebennus was, according to one account, a bishop and martyr of Palestine, in the third century, at Eleutheropolis.

Little is known of his early life, career or ministry. It is said that during his episcopate he had a dream revealing the burial place of the prophets Micah and Habakkuk. He was put to death on the Ides of November, together with two others, Germanus and Antoninus, a priest. Their commemoration is kept on 13 November. The details are uncertain, and the source may be mixing together several persons of the same name. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured with no synodal canonization shown by the sources.

Commemorated the same day November 13