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The sisters set themselves in opposition to the prevailing custom. On locating a cave with a mineral spring, they set up a chapel and cells for themselves, and opened a clinic where they treated all who came to them regardless of their ability to pay.
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Philonella devoted herself to experimental medicine, using methods approaching that of modern scientific methods, and worked hard to separate effective medicine from superstition. Zenaida was particularly interested in
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by pagans on the same night. According to another, both met peaceful ends, with Philonella surviving her sister by some years, deepening her spiritual devotion and becoming known as a wonderworker.
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Zenaida and Philonella were sisters, born into a well-educated Jewish family and said to be cousins of
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They are commemorated on October 11 in Eastern Orthodoxy and on April 14 with
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Traditions vary about their deaths. According to one account, the two were
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Zenaida (saint)

Tarsus
Cilicia
Tarsus
Mersin
Turkey
Thessaly
Greece
Eastern Orthodoxy
Anglican Communion
Feast
physicians
Luke the Evangelist
unmercenaries
Eastern Christianity
Paul the Apostle
instructed
baptized
Jason
bishop
Tarsus
Pelion
Demetriada
Thessaly
Asclepius
magical
amulets
pediatrics
psychiatric disorders

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