Confession and Martyrdom
By the account, Zeno and Zenas presented themselves before the provincial governor and reproached him for the worship of idols, urging him to abandon it and accept Christ. When questioned, both refused to deny their faith, and they were handed over to a series of severe tortures.
The synaxarion relates that they were bound to pillars and torn with iron hooks, their wounds rubbed with vinegar and salt; their sides and chests were burned with fire, and they were cast into a pit over which boiling oil was poured. The tradition holds that they were preserved alive through these ordeals by the power of God, and that, when the torments failed to overcome them, the two martyrs were finally beheaded with a sword.
Later accounts add further particulars to the catalogue of their sufferings, including imprisonment with their legs fixed in stocks and burning with heated spits, and report that their relics were afterward interred in a church dedicated to Saint George at a place called Cyparisson.