Saint Zenon the Postman, Commemorative Ιssue
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Title
Saint Zenon the Postman, Commemorative Ιssue
Description
Agios Zenon was born to rich and aristocratic parents in the province of Ponto in Asia Minor. He enlisted in the army as a special courier of Emperor Flavius Valens ( 364-378 AD) whom he served with great devotion. He carried the Emperor’s messages and orders at non-stop gallops across dangerous routes as far as Armenia. This blind devotion to the Emperor may have been the reason for Valens’s convertion to Christianity. Because of this service he is associated with philately and postal administration.
On the death of the Emperor in 378, Agios Zenon resigned from the service to live as a hermit in a cave in Antioch for the rest of his life. People in the vicinity brought him food but he fetched his own water from a spring not so far away.
The beautiful purple colour of Agios Zenon’s frock comes from a gastropod (Mirex triremus) a sea snail that secretes a yellowish fluid which when boiled and treated makes a purple dye now used in Christian churches and which gave rise to the official colours of Cardinals.
Agios Zenon died in 417 AD and gave all his wealth to charity. He was elevated to sainthood for the virtues and godliness he exhibited till the end of his life.
According to John of Damascus, the images of saints and their relics were to be respected because the grace of the Holy Spirit, which inspired them during their lives, lingers round their earthly remains and portraits.
On the death of the Emperor in 378, Agios Zenon resigned from the service to live as a hermit in a cave in Antioch for the rest of his life. People in the vicinity brought him food but he fetched his own water from a spring not so far away.
The beautiful purple colour of Agios Zenon’s frock comes from a gastropod (Mirex triremus) a sea snail that secretes a yellowish fluid which when boiled and treated makes a purple dye now used in Christian churches and which gave rise to the official colours of Cardinals.
Agios Zenon died in 417 AD and gave all his wealth to charity. He was elevated to sainthood for the virtues and godliness he exhibited till the end of his life.
According to John of Damascus, the images of saints and their relics were to be respected because the grace of the Holy Spirit, which inspired them during their lives, lingers round their earthly remains and portraits.
Source
Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus
Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία
Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία
Publisher
Library of Cyprus University of Technology
Date
Contributor
Designer: Sophia Malekou
Rights
Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού.
Relation
www.cypruspost.gov.cy
Format
jpg
Language
en
Type
Identifier
2007CS64
Coverage
35.160417, 33.346556
Files
Collection
Citation
Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus
Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία, “Saint Zenon the Postman, Commemorative Ιssue
,” Αψίδα, accessed April 19, 2024, https://apsida.cut.ac.cy/items/show/44169.