Память святых мучеников Зинона и Зины

The holy martyr Zenon came from Philadelphia in Arabia 4101, which in ancient times bore the name Hemana. Zina was his servant and was eager to accept suffering for faith in Christ. Under hegemon Maximian, who ruled the region during the reign of Emperor Maximian, Saint Zenon 4102 distributed all his property to the poor and set his slaves free. Hearing about the great honor the hegemon showed to idols, he came to him along with his servant, as Zina himself wished for this, who did not want to leave his master and voluntarily went with him. Saint Zenon appeared to the hegemon and when he saw that he was really very concerned about the veneration of false gods and was himself diligently devoted to serving idols, he denounced him. Then the hegemon immediately ordered the saint to be beaten with cowhide belts. During this torture, Zinon, stretching out his hand, hit the wall of the idol church with his elbow and thereby destroyed and destroyed it. For this they first hanged him and began to plan his body without mercy, rubbing the wounds with vinegar and salt, and then hammering his legs into the block with four wedges. His servant Zina came to the place of Saint Zinon’s torment and began to beg his master not to push him away or leave him. Having learned about this, the hegemon ordered Zina to put her feet in the block. When both holy martyrs were brought to the hegemon for interrogation and refused to renounce Christ, they were given over to a cruel beating, and Saint Zenon was also burned with red-hot iron rods on his chest and that part of it where the heart is located. After this, the saints were hung on a tree, heavy stones were tied to their feet and their muscles were burned with fire, and then they were thrown into a pit with fire and they began to pour oil on the fire, but since the holy martyrs miraculously remained unharmed and not even scorched by the fire, they finally cut off their heads with a sword 4103. Their memory is celebrated in the church of St. George in Kyparissia 4104. On this day, the memory of the holy martyr Galaktion, who was drowned in the sea, and Juliana, who was burned along with her son Saturninus, is commemorated. According to the explanation of the Right Reverend Philaret (“Lives of the Saints,” June, p. 165), Philadelphia of Arabia was the name given to the northern part of Perea or the Transjordanian country in Palestine and was called Decapolis. According to the Monthly Word of Emperor Basil and the Greek Synaxarion, Zinon was a warrior. The holy martyrs died in 304 during the reign of Maximian Herculus, co-ruler of Diocletian from 286 to 305. Kyparissium or Kyparissos is a locality in Constantinople. You might be interested in: