[1] A late legend states that the three were orphaned siblings, members of a noble Roman family, the Anicii, and related to the Emperor Carinus.

[3] When Diocletian began to persecute Christians, according to the legend, the four left Rome, selling their home and giving most of the proceeds to the poor.

[4] They reached their estate in Aquileia, where they had travelled to visit in his prison the holy priest Saint Chrysogonus.

His testimony, which he could draw from coeval documents, is very reliable, and states only that they were brothers of blood and that they were martyred together not far from Aquileia, while they were leaving from there in a chariot.

An early Christian basilica and tomb was discovered at San Canzian in recent times; it contained the remains of three individuals.