Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. First found in the little Roman Martyrology of the age of Rufous, followed by Ado and Usuardus. Authority The Acts of S. Sebastian.] Nicostratus, the jailor of Sebastian, was converted Pantaraus was probably ignorant of the language of the Indians, and he mistook their statement that Mar-Thomais, the Apostle Thomas, had preached to them for Bartholomew.

…by the healing of Zoe, his wife, who had been six years deprived of speech. Claudius, the “ commentariensis,” believed also; his sons, Felicissimus and Symphorian, on hearing of what had been done, and at the preaching of S. Polycarp. Castor, the brother of Nicostratus, and Victorinus, the brother of Claudius, also believed and were baptized.

After the martyrdom of Zoe and Tranquillinus, the bodies of the saints were cast into the Tiber. Then Nicostratus, Claudius, Castor, Victorinus, and Symphorian, made search for them at the mouth of the river, and were taken after they had found and buried the bodies. By order of Fabian, the governor of Ostia, they were racked, and then flung into the sea with weights attached to their necks.