ABSTRACT
There are important distinctions between Eustathius and Procopius, although they also had points of contact. While Procopius certainly existed, whatever transformation he underwent thanks to the fertile imagination of hagiographers, it is almost equally certain that Eustathius did not. Nothing historically verifiable is known about him, not even when and where he lived. Moreover no sanctuary is known where his relics might have been deposed, where his cult may have begun, and from which it might have spread.1 Perhaps this is why Hippolyte Delehaye did not consider him, unlike Procopius, as a candidate for the état-major. Yet Eustathius was by far the more popular of the two; he figures earlier in iconography and that of Procopius derives in part from his.
