Holy Martyrs Zenon and Zenas

Life

Saint Zenon was a Roman officer in the city of Philadelphia in Arabia. And Zenas was his servant. When in the time of Emperor Maximian the persecution of Christians began, Saint Zenon dared to come before the governor Maximus, confessed his faith in the one living God, and counseled Maximus to abandon the dead idols and accept the only true faith. The governor grew angry and cast Zenon into prison. And when the faithful Zenas visited his master in prison, he too was seized and arrested. Then both were tortured for Christ and finally cast into a fire into which the pagans had poured oil. Their souls were crowned with wreaths in the kingdom of Christ, and their bodily remains were buried in the Church of Saint George in a place called Cyparission.