Zoilus of Córdoba

Holy Martyr Zoilus of Córdoba was a young man of Córdoba in Spain, put to death with nineteen other Christians in the persecution of Diocletian at the beginning of the fourth century. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in the West and in the East, and commemorated on 27 June (new style).

His name appears in the Christian poet Prudentius, in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum and in the Roman Martyrology. His relics were enshrined at the abbey of San Zoilo at Carrión de los Condes, in the province of Palencia, a Benedictine monastery; near Córdoba there was also a monastery dedicated to him, with which some of the later martyrs of Córdoba were associated. His feast was also once celebrated at Chester.