His name was first linked to the name of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, who were martyred around the year 303 AD, and who was their brother. Secondly, his name was linked to Al-Qazam.

Saint Arsanius was born in the late nineteenth century in the village of Farasa, which is one of six villages that remained Christian in the country.

Al-Harith and his companions were martyred in Najran in the year 523, and the church celebrates them on the twenty-fourth of October. Najran is a city in the north