ST ATHANASIUS, BISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA IN EGYPT AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH, St. Zoe, May 2

ST ATHANASIUS, BISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA IN EGYPT AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH

St. Athanasius, Roman Catholic Bishop and Doctor of the Church. . His refusal to tolerate the Arian heresy was the cause of many trials and persecutions for St. Athanasius. He spent seventeen of the forty-six years of his episcopate in exile. Feastday May 2

St. Zoe, wife of Exsuperius, also known as Hesperus, both Christians, and slaves. When they refused to eat food offered to the Gods by their master on the birth of their son, they and their two sons, Syriacus and Theodulus, were tortured and then roasted to death in a furnace. Feastday May 2nd