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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Zoilus the Roman

A martyr of Roman origin, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
April 13old style April 26
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Zoilus the Roman suffered hung upon a tree, struck by the arrow of a bow, as the verse of the synaxarion has it.

No other details of his life, or of the place or time of his martyrdom, survive. He is commemorated on 13 April, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), beside the martyrs Dadas, Quintilian, Maximus, Eleutherius the Persian, Theodosia the empress and others.

Commemorated the same day April 13