Although it is unclear whether he was convicted at trial and subsequently went into exile, he was placed under an aquae et ignis interdictio by a rogatio of Saturninus; that is, like Cicero later, he was "denied water and fire", a formulaic expression of banishment (see Law of majestas).
In order to ingratiate himself with the people, who still cherished the memory of the Gracchi, Saturninus took about with him Lucius Equitius, a paid freedman, who made himself out to be the son of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus.
The name of Saturninus reveals paternally he is related to the gens, Valeria, Lollia and gens, Volusia.
Gregory of Tours (Historia Francorum I, 30), using an acta of Saturninus, affirms that Paul was among those consecrated priests at Rome and sent to replant the Christian communities in Gaul.
The south west corner of Plaza Yungay is home to the church and parish of Saint Saturninus (San Saturnino); Saint Saturninus is the protector of Santiago residents from tremors and earthquakes.
In 431 he tried, unsuccessfully, to place Saturninus on the episcopal throne of Marcianopolis in place of the Nestorian Dorotheus.