Bardas 12 was a protonotarios; he had a son (name unrecorded) who was miraculously cured by St Peter of Atroa (Petros 34); husband of Anonyma 13 (συγκλητική τις); after their son was cured by Petros 34, Bardas 12 went to visit Petros 34 but fell gravely ill while staying at a property which he owned close to Petros 34's monastery on Mt Olympus (ἐν τῷ πλησίον ὄντι τῆς μονῆς αὐτοῦ προαστείῳ - presumably identical with the χωρίον recorded as belonging to his wife, Anonyma 13); Bardas 12 was visited by Petros 34 and asked him to pray that he be granted thirty days in which to put his affairs in order before he died; Petros 34 supposedly gave him ninety days; he returned home (to Nikaia, see Anonyma 13) and arranged his affairs, showing repentance, giving generously to widows, orphans and the poor, freeing his slaves and releasing his debtors from their obligations; on the eightieth day he again fell ill and on the ninetieth he died, fulfilling Petros 34's prophecy: Vita Petr. Atr. Retractata, p. 125 (περὶ τοῦ πενταετοῦς ἰαθέντος ἐξηραμμένου παιδὸς τοῦ πρωτονοταρίου Βάρδα), p. 126 (περὶ τῆς τοῦ αὐτοῦ Βάρδα οἰκειώσεως καὶ ἐνενηκονταημέρου ζωῆς αὐτοῦ προσθήκης προοράσεώς τε καὶ περατώσεως), Vita Petr. Atr. 52-53, pp. 171-173 (tells the same story, but without naming Bardas 12; see also Barnabas 1 and Petros 35). The event occurred at St Zacharias, in the Opsikion theme, in the reign of Michael II (Michael 10). Bardas 12 was presumably protonotarios of the Opsikion theme; cf. Laurent, Vita Retractata, p. 124, note 1.

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