Zenobius of Antioch

Saint Zenobius, called Zenobius of Antioch in our records, was a presbyter who suffered for Christ in the time of the emperor Maximian Galerius (305 to 311), around the year 310. He is counted among the hundreds of martyrs of Egypt and Palestine, among them the bishops Pelius and Nilus, the presbyter Zenobius, Patermuthius and Elias. They were seized by Firmilian, governor of Palestine.

The martyrs had their eyes put out and the sinews of their legs cut, and were subjected to every kind of torment. One hundred of them were beheaded and the rest burned. Some sources count Zenobius as of Antioch, others as of Tyre or Sidon. In the Russian Church calendar he is commemorated on 30 September (new style).