ZENO, Saint, Martyr. - He is remembered only by the Bern codex of the Hieronymian Martyrology on 14 February (Acta SS. Novembris, II, part 1, Brussels 1894, p. [20]). On the same date he is commemorated by the Gelasian Sacramentary of the 8th century from St. Gall.

He was buried in the cemetery of Pretestato on the Via Appia in a church where pilgrims of the 7th century venerated him. Pope Damasus dedicated a poem to him, of which only a few fragments survive, preserved today in the Christian Museum of the Lateran. Pope Adrian I (772-95) restored the cemetery church of Z. (Lib. Pont., I, p. 509); Paschal I (817-824) transferred his body to the basilica of S. Prassede (v.) and placed it in the oratory dedicated to him, which he adorned with the characteristic mosaics still extant (ibid., II, p. 55). Nothing is known about Z. and the time of his death. In the inscription placed by Paschal I he is called a priest.

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BIBL.: Acta SS. Februarii, II, Paris 1864, pp. 744-46; G. B. De Rossi, La Roma sott. crist., I, Rome 1864, pp. 120, 246; id., Musaici cristiani, ibid. 1899, fasc. XXVI-XXVII; Wilpert, Mosaiken, pls. 114-15; Martyr. Hieronymianum, p. 96; Martyr. Romanum, pp. 62, 279; A. Ferrua, Epigrammata Damasiana, Vatican City 1942, pp. 134-36; R. Valentini-G. Zucchetti, Codice topogr. della città di Roma, II, Rome 1942, pp. 87, 111.

Agostino Amore

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