They joined the Roman Army and during the persecution of Diocletian,[2] were imprisoned after being identified as Christians.
Viator failed to find a boat that could take them and they were decapitated on a hill of the fundus Ursianus in the conventus Gaditanus.
[3] The body of Germanus was buried at Mérida and that of Servandus at Cádiz, and then later translated to Seville.
[4] The hill of fundus Ursianus has been identified with Cerro de los Mártires (San Fernando) and with Cerro de Torrejosa near Facinas (Tarifa).
[7] The sculptor Luisa Roldán (1650–1704), called La Roldana, made sculptures of these two saints at Cádiz.