Sts. Zoilus and Companions

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

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June 26 · Martyrs

Sts. Zoilus and…

Sts. Zoilus and Companions

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

June 26
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

June 27 (also listed: December 22)
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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

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 26 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Spanish Martyrologies. Authority Mention in the Martyrologies and Acts, which are late and spurious.] Zoilus, martyr of Cordova, in Spain, was arrested in the persecution of Diocletian. After having endured various tortures, he was decapitated with twenty-nine others. A church was built at Cordova in his honour, and his relics are there preserved. Seven of the company suspiciously enou/h bear the names of the seven sons of S. Symphorosa, and in the same order.

Feast days

Feast: June 27
Traditional: June 26

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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Credits

Image: Cordoba Ermita de San Zoilo El titular sobre la puerta.jpg · "Turol Jones, un artista de cojones from Villanueva del Cascajal, República Independiente de Mi Casa"; changes by Rabanu · CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Image: "Turol Jones, un artista de cojones from Villanueva del Cascajal, República Independiente de Mi Casa"; changes by Rabanu, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

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.