Chronicler of the 1177th was noted that the beans Zadar accompanying Pope Alexander III. on the way to the basilica sang praise songs in "their Slavic language". Besides the cathedral and bell tower, which rises in its present form is completed in the late 19th century to the designs of English architect TG Jackson. 

The legend of St. Anastasia
Legend tells of Roman, a patrician woman who because of their desire for virginity was closed under house arrest.
After her husband's death he went to Aquileia accompanied St. Grisogono attend where his martyrdom. According to legend, was tortured for the Diocletian persecution. Burned at the stake. The relics that are in the 5th century transferred to Constantinople got the 804th The Zadar bishop Donatus of Emperor Nicefora And in a sign of reconciliation with the mainland of Byzantium. Were transferred to Zadar and stored in a stone sarcophagus in the church of St. Peter, which has since been called the church of Sts. Anastasia.