↑Martyred bishop of Syracuse, Italy, called "the First Bischop of the West". Cfr. C. J. Stallman, The Past in Hagiographic Texts: S. Marcian of Syracuse, in G. W. Clarke, Reading the Past in Late Antiquity, Singapore 1990, pp. 347-365 e Hugo Buchthal, Art of the Mediterranean World: 100-1400 A. D., 1983, p. 61.