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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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February 19 · Bishop, Confessor

St. Zabdas

St. Zabdas

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

February 19
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop
Confessor

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 shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on February 19 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Name mentioned by Eusebius among the Bishops of Jerusalem. He is also called Zambdas and Bazas. He is said to have baptized a portion of the Theban legion, but nothing authentic is known of him.

Feast days

Feast: February 19

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

Also on February 19
A

St. Auxibius of Solias

February 19 · Bishop
G

St. Gabinius

February 19 · Priest, Martyr
O

St. Odran

February 19 · Martyr
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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.