The first document attesting the existence of San Biase as an already established inhabited center dates back to the year 993, but the toponym takes us back a few centuries. Probably a group of Armenian faithful from Sebaste fled due to iconoclastic persecutions embarking part of the mortal remains of San Biagio. It is probable that from Maratea, where the local Christians welcomed the relics of the Saint, in the exodus due to the continuous attacks of the Saracens, groups of families went up north bringing with them the cult of their Saint. The name of the town is in fact an agionimo, that is, it reproduces the name of the Saint to whom the first place of worship around which the town was formed was entitled.
