Saint
Zeno
A saint commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- April 5old style April 18
- Era
- unknown
Life
Holy Martyr Zeno endured terrible torments for Christ: he was smeared with pitch, then thrown into the fire and killed in the midst of the flames with a spear, as the Greek synaxarion relates.
No details survive of his life, or of the place or time of his martyrdom. He is commemorated on 5 April, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).
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Theodulus and AgathopodesHoly Martyrs · Martyrs of ThessalonicaApr 5
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