sentences:  About the 6th century arose a legend of the martyr that made him a Roman and brought him into relation with Saint Anastasia, evidently to explain the veneration of Chrysogonus in the Roman church that bears his name.According to this legend, Chrysogonus, at first a functionary of the "vicarius" Urbis, was the Christian teacher of Anastasia, the daughter of the noble Roman Praetextatus.Being thrown into prison during the persecution of Diocletian, he comforted by his letters the severely afflicted Anastasia.