Saint Zephyrinus

Saint Zephyrinus

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  • Description / Title of the Saint : Pope and Martyr

Saint Zephyrinus

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Zephyrinus: August 26
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Pope and Martyr
  • Date of Death: Saint Zephyrinus died 1270
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Zephyrinus
The story and history of Saint Zephyrinus. Zephyrinus, a native of Rome, succeeded Victor in the pontificate, in the year 202, in which Severus raised the fifth most bloody persecution against the Church, which continued not for two years only, but until the death of that emperor in 211. Under this furious storm this holy pastor was the support and comfort of the distressed flock of Christ, and he suffered by charity and compassion what every confessor underwent. The triumphs of the martyrs were indeed his joy, but his heart received many deep wounds from the fall of apostates and heretics. Neither did this latter affliction cease when peace was restored to the Church. Our Saint had also the affliction to see the fall of Tertullian, which seems to have been owing partly to his pride. Eusebius tells us that this holy Pope exerted his zeal so strenuously against the blasphemies of the heretics that they treated him in the most contumelious manner; but it was his glory that they called him the principal defender of Christ's divinity. St. Zephyrinus filled the pontifical chair seventeen years, dying in 219. He was buried in his own cemetery, on the 26th of August. He is, in some Martyrologies, styled a martyr, which title he might deserve by what he suffered in the persecution, though he perhaps did not die by the executioner. mother recalled him to France; but when order was reestablished he again set forth on a second crusade. In August, 1270, his army landed at Tunis, and, though victorious over the enemy, succumbed to a malignant fever. Louis was one of the victims. He received the Viaticum kneeling by his camp-bed, and gave up his life with the same joy that he had given all else for the honor of God.

Feast Day of Saint Zephyrinus
The Feast Day of Saint Zephyrinus is August 26. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

 

Saint Zephyrinus

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Zephyrinus
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
  • Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Zephyrinus
  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Zephyrinus - August 26
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: 1270
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Zephyrinus
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Pope and Martyr
 
 

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Saint Zephyrinus