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Please be aware that what follows are the speculations of an amateur. If you have a serious interest, you would do well to consult the sources referenced below.
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Although St Anastasius is the leader of the group of saints in the Legend of the 12 Syrians, St Proculus
Passio s. Proculi (St Proculus - BHL 6955 - 1st June)
When the party split up at a place called “Pax Sanctorum”, St Proculus went to Narni and continued to Carsulae.
St Eutychius
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✴the Passio s. Euticii Confessoris (St Eutychius - BHL ?? - 23rd May)
When the party split up at a place called “Pax Sanctorum”, St Eutychius settled as a hermit near lake Bolsena.
According to the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I (593), St Eutychius was a hermit who became the abbot of what became the Abbazia di Sant’ Eutizio, probably in the late 5th century.
St Herculanus
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✴the Passio s. Herculanus ep. Perusinus (St Herculanus - BHL 3823 - 1st March)
According to the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I (593), St Herculanus, bishop of Perugia, was martyred by Totila in ca. 549
St Laurence
When the party arrived in Rome, Bishop/Pope Urban ordained St Laurence as a deacon.
St John
The Martyrology of Florus records St John the hermit (from an unspecified location) under 19th March. The Martyrology of Adon (858) records St John Penariensis under the same date, and these two references probably refer to the same saint.
In all of these independent accounts, only two record specifically Syrian figures:
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✴St Isaac in the Dialogues; and
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✴St John Penariensis in the Martyrology of Adon
There are in fact a number of other parallels between these two saints:
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✴both were viewed with suspicion when they first arrived in Spoleto; and
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✴both established eremetical monasteries outside the city.
St Isaac
According to the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I (593), St Isaac arrived at Spoleto “at the time that the Goths first invaded Italy” and lived there “almost to the last days of the Goths” (i.e. almost to 562).
