<Eudocia is persuaded by Euthymius to relinquish her association with Dioscoros’ heresy and to return to the bosom of the Catholic Church.>
Immediately she came back to the holy city <from the Tower, where she had heard Euthymius teaching> and, through the priest Cosmas and Anastasius she made known to the Patriarch her intention to join his Church, causing by her example the return to the Catholic communion of a great number of laymen and monks, who had been led astray by Theodosius <the anti-Chalcedonian archbishop of Jerusalem, 451-453>. Of the two archimandrites, one, Elpidius, got rid of the fallacious creed and united himself to the Church, while the other, Gerontius, persisted in his former absurd opposition and dragged with him into defection a goodly crowd, among which were two monks, who left Elpidius’ community, persisting in the fallacious creed: their names were Marcianus and Romanus. They established coenobia, the former near holy Beth Lehem, the latter close by the village of Thekoa.
(transl. Leah Di Segni)
According to Cyril's chronology, Romanus established the coenobium in 456, after the first union, but this does not accord with the Monophysite sources given above.