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313 ST. ZYNGUE 818 gathered a qaantity of sticks and set them on fire and stood in the fire until he was very much burnt. Then he lamented and accused himself of sin, and said, '*If the pain of this fire is unbear- able for a short time, how dreadful will be the eternal fire which the devil is preparing for me by means of this woman. This fire can bo extinguished with water, but the other shcJl never be quenched to all Eternity." Then he went back into the fire and stood there until his feet were so burnt that he fell on the ground. Zee seeing his grief and calling to mind her wicked life, was moved to re- pentance, and seeing him bum his body to save his soul, she took off all her fine clothes and threw them in the fire, and put on her rags again and fell at his to tell her how she could be saved. He told her to go to St. Paula's convent at Bethlehem and tell her all her story and be guided by her. He said that God would forgive her if she persevered in a life of penitence. He gave her some food for the journey and showed her the way to Jerusalem. She stayed in the mountains that night, aud next day she went to Bethlehem. She arrived there towards evening and went and confessed all to the abbess Paula, who took her in. She lived there a life of extreme penance for ten years, taking no food but a little bread and water every evening, sleeping on the ground and praying earnestly for forgiveness. One day Paula, to test her earnestness, bade her pray for a certain woman who had come to be cured of a disease in her eyes. Such was the efiicacy of Zoe's prayers that in a few days the woman was perfectly well. Henschenius, from a contemporary life of St. Martinian the hermit, compared with Motaphrastes, who is the authority for the name of Zoe : the oldest lives of St Martinian do not give her name. Tillemont, in his account of Paula's convent, gives her name and calls her a saint. For the continuation of the story, see Photina (2). St. Zoile. There was a church at Cordova dedicated in this name, in the time of St. Eulogius, middle of the 9th century. St. Zonisa, April 2, M. at Thessa- lonica. Mas Latrie. Gu^rin. St Zoraida. {See Maby (42).) St. Zotica, April 24, M. at Alexan- dria. AA,S8. St Zozima (l) or Zosima, July 15, Jan. 18, M. with her sister Bonosa (1). St. Zozima (2) of Ostia, Jan. 18, M. Perhaps the same as Zozima (1). St Zrifene or Tkifene, Tkyphena (3). B. Zuette, Ivetta. St. Zure, ZuwARDA. St. Zuwarda, Zure, Sura, or Soteris (3), Feb. 10. Date unknown. Repre- sented with her throat cut, a fisherman's knife in her hand. She built a church in honour of the Virgin Mary, at Dord- recht in Holland. Zuwarda always had in her purse three small coins called copkens^ with which she paid her work- men. When she had spent her money and wanted more, she found still throe co^pJcens in her purse ; some wicked men knowing that she always had money to give away, murdered her, expecting to gain quantities of gold and silver, but tiiey only found three copkens. The murderers were condemned to death, but the saint knowing that they were peni- tent, appeared to the judge and begged for their pardon, which was granted. On the spot where she was killed, a foun- tain sprang up which cured fevers and other diseases. Some think the saint worshipped there was the Eoman St. Soteris (2). BoUandus, from local tradi- tion. St. Zyngue, July 14, Cunegund (4).
 * feet, begging him to pray for her and