Toward the middle of the 16th century, the Viennese scholar Wolfgang Lazius attributed to him the authorship of a collection of apostolic legends, which he entitled *De historia certaminis apostolici*, published in Basel in March 1552 (the preface bears the date of 19 August 1551). According to Lazius, Babdia wrote this work in Hebrew, which was then translated into Greek by his disciple Eutropius and into Latin by Julius Africanus.
In reality, however, it is an anonymous work written in Gaul in the 6th century in two stages. The first edition seems to have contained only the *Passiones* of the twelve apostles, drawing on the collection of Leucius Carinus for Peter, Paul, John, Andrew, Thomas, and other narratives for the remaining apostles (Gregory of Tours alludes to this in the preface to his *Liber de miraculis s. Andreae*). The second edition added the *Virtutes et Miracula*, particularly for Andrew and Thomas, drawing on works of the same name attributed to Gregory of Tours. Hence the variety of its content in the manuscripts and the different titles by which it is known: *Passiones*, *Miracula*, or *Virtutes Apostolorum*.
The reviser of the *Martyrologium Hieronymianum* at Auxerre (592–600) (cf., for example, the entries for 19 July and 28 October concerning the feasts of SS. Simon and Jude) and Venantius Fortunatus (*Carmina*, VIII, vv. 147–50) drew upon this collection. From a literary standpoint, the work of Pseudo-Babdia is useful for understanding the transmission of various apostolic apocrypha.