Zoilus

Holy Venerable Zoilus is commemorated together with Venerable Zenon on 16 March, in the new style. The time and place of their lives are unknown.

Their commemoration is contained in the Byzantine verse synaxaria, which say that they reposed in peace (the Paris manuscript of 1301). From there it and a couplet dedicated to them passed into the printed Greek Menaia (Venice, 1596) and into the Synaxaristes of Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite. When the 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 calendar of the Russian Church.