(ABOUT A.D. 290.)
[Roman Martyrology and Greek Menaea. The Greeks keep their
commemoration, however, on Jan. 4th. The authority for the
following account is the Greek Menaea.]
These martyrs suffered under Diocletian, in Cilicia. S. Zosimus was a
hermit. His ears were burnt off with red hot irons, afterwards he was
plunged into a vessel of molten lead, and was then dismissed. He
returned to his desert, converted and baptized Athanasius, and died in
his cell.