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September 27 · —

St. Zenas

St. Zenas

Traditional feast

September 27
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Feast

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 September 27 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menaea as Zeno along with Mark and Aristarchus. Also on April 27 again the same three.] Zenas, a lawyer, is mentioned in the Epistle of S. Paul to Titus (iii. 13), in connexion with Apollos. The Mensea and pseudo-Dorotheus say he became bishop of Diospolis or Lydda.

Feast days

Feast: September 27

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

Also on September 27
St. John Mark

St. John Mark

September 27 · Feast
C

Sts. Cosmas and Damian

September 27 · Martyrs
E

St. Elzear

September 27 · Confessor
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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, 1897–98); 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.