In places where the Julian calendar is used, this date coincides, in the 20th and 21st centuries, with 28 June on the Gregorian calendar. He is also said to protect against lightning strikes, animal attacks and oversleeping. It also led to Vitus being considered the patron saint of dancers and of entertainers in general. This dancing became popular and the name "Saint Vitus Dance" was given to the neurological disorder Sydenham's chorea.
In Germany, his feast was celebrated with dancing before his statue. In the Middle Ages, he was counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Īccording to his legend, he died during the Diocletianic Persecution in AD 303. The figures of Modestus and Crescentia are probably fictitious. He has for long been tied to the Sicilian martyrs Modestus and Crescentia but in the earliest sources it is clear that these were originally different traditions that later became combined. The dates of his actual life are unknown. His surviving hagiography is pure legend. Vitus ( English: / ˈ v aɪ t ə s/), whose name is sometimes rendered Guy or Guido, was a Christian martyr from Sicily. Saint Vitus, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493ĭepicted in a cauldron, with a rooster or a lionĪctors comedians Rijeka, Croatia Czechoslovakia dancers dogs epilepsy Mazara del Vallo, Sicily Forio, Ischia oversleeping Prague, Czech Republic rheumatic chorea (Saint Vitus Dance) Serbia snake bites storms Vacha, Germany Zeven, Lower Saxony the Gooi, Netherlands E Clampus Vitus
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