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June 23 · Martyrs

Sts. Zeno and Zenas

Sts. Zeno and Zenas

Traditional feast

June 23
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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Represents

Martyrs

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on June 23 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menaea and the Menology of the Emperor Basil Introduced thence into the Roman Martyrology by Baronius. Authority: — The account in the Menology and the Greek Acts.] Zeno, a soldier in Arabia, believed in Christ, and feeling a vehement desire for martyrdom, freed all his slaves and presented himself before the magistrate and confessed Christ. He was beaten and imprisoned. Zenas, a Christian servant, followed him, and kissed his chains, whereupon he was apprehended, and master and servant were executed together next day. June aj.V ■W. John & Jacob.

Feast days

Feast: June 23

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Zeno and Zenas's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. John

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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.