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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, May 2nd, 2019. This week on the Catholic Spouts

podcast, we are still celebrating Easter, and we are celebrating many of the great saints

that show us what it means to truly be an Easter people, to live in the joy and next to

beside the great risen Lord Jesus Christ.

We have already looked at St. Catherine of Siena and seen that anything is possible when you

believe in Jesus Christ.

We looked at St. George, both the real person and the legend, and reminded ourselves that we

need not fear Satan. Next, yesterday we looked at St. Joseph the worker. We reminded ourselves that

there is dignity in work and that St. Joseph is a powerful intercessor for us. Today, we are going to look at a lesser-known saint who has a feast

day today, and that is St. Zoe. Now, St. Zoe was an early Christian. She lived in a part of Asia

that we call Asia Minor, and she was a slave.

At the time, she was married to a man, and they had two sons.

They converted to Christianity, but their master had not converted to Christianity.

He still practiced belief in the pagan gods, many gods, to which they

offered various kinds of sacrifices. However, St. Zoe and her husband had really been

falling in love with Jesus Christ and the principles of Christianity. At the birth of their second son, the owner, the master of St. Ziozzi, had really been falling in love with Jesus Christ and the principles of Christianity. At the birth of their second son, the owner, the master of St. Zoe and her husband,

offered food as a sacrifice to the gods in Thanksgiving for the birth of their son, who, of course,

would be another slave to this man.

St. Zoe and her husband, however, refused to eat the food that

had been sacrificed to the gods, and therefore their master knew that they had been converted

to Christianity. He tortured them, forcing, trying very hard to force them to renounce their

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