Patron Saint

Saint Zoe of Rome (d. ca. 286) is the Patron Saint of this Church. She was a noblewoman, married to Nicostratus, a high Roman court official.

For six years she had been unable to speak. St Sebastian made the Sign of the Cross over the woman, and she immediately began to speak and she glorified the Lord.

Nicostratus and his wife asked for Baptism.

She lived during Emperor Diocletian’s early persecution of the Christian Church.

She was greatly devoted to St. Peter and was praying by his tomb when she was arrested for her faith. She died, stifled by smoke, being hung over a fire. Her body then was thrown into the River Tiber.