Zenon

Holy Venerable Zenon is commemorated together with Venerable Zoilus, on 16 March, in the new style.

The time and place of their lives are unknown. Their commemoration entered the Byzantine verse synaxaria, which say that they reposed in peace (a Paris manuscript of 1301). From there it and a couplet dedicated to them ("The leaving of life made life better for Zenon and Zoilus") passed into the printed Greek Menaia (Venice, 1596) and into the Synaxaristes of Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite. When the Byzantine synaxaria were translated into Slavonic, the commemoration and the couplet entered the verse Prologues, and from there the Great Menaion of Macarius and the present-⁠day calendar of the Russian Church.