Anonymus 68 was a rich man (ὁ ἀνὴρ τῶν εὐπόρων) and iconoclast, living somewhere on the route between Kalon Oros and Plateia Petra (in Lydia), he had been paralysed and bed-ridden for three years when he heard of the cure of Anonymus 67; he had his servants take him to Peter of Atroa (Petros 34) but was only cured after confessing to his iconoclast views and promising to venerate Christ's image; he kissed the icon and immediately stood up and walked home: Vita Petr. Atr. 24, p. 123. The next day fourteen of his female servants were seized by demons in the form of snakes which had come out from him, and they were cured by Petros 34's cloak which had inadvertently been left behind: Vita Petr. Atr. 25, p. 125. This occurred during the reign of Leo V (Leo 15). The co-incidence of the fourteen maid servants suggests that this man is to be identified with Niketas 51, but other elements of his story are at variance with this. Laurent (Vita Petr. Atr. Retractata, intro., p. 72, n. 1) wonders if there were two identical phenomena or if with the lapse of time the recollections of the author, Sabas 1, had become confused.

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