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Encyclopedia > Saint Vitus

Vitus is a Latin given name meaning lively.


Saint Vitus was a Christian saint from Sicily, Italy. He was one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and he died as a martyr in 303.


Saint Vitus' Day is celebrated on June 15 according to the Gregorian calendar, and on June 28 according to the Julian calendar.


In medieval times, people from central/northern Europe (Germany, Latvia etc) celebrated the feast of Saint Vitus with the so-called Saint Vitus Dance, though that term also has a meaning of a nervous disorder exhibited by trembling, see Chorea (disease).


St. Vitus is considered the patron saint of actors, comedians, dancers, and finally epileptics. He also protects against lightnings, animal attacks and oversleeping, and is the patron saint of Bohemia (cf. St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague) and the town of Forio in Campania, Italy. The feast of St. Vitus is also important to the Serb Orthodox Church, see Vidovdan.


"St. Vitus" is also the seminal Doom Metal/Stoner Metal band, well-known for having Scott Weinrich as lead singer for several albums in the 1990s.


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Vitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (224 words)
Saint Vitus' Day is celebrated on June 15 according to the Gregorian calendar, and on June 28 according to the Julian calendar.
Vitus is considered the patron saint of actors, comedians, dancers, and finally epileptics.
Vitus is the patron saint of the towns of Forio in Campania, Italy and the town of Winschoten in the Netherlands.
Saint Vitus (1558 words)
The Vitus who is alone is celebrated in the Gelasian Sacramentary and an early South Italian Book of the Gospels, which assigns to his feast a pericope of the cure from demonic possession and sickness.
Saint Vitus is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, who, as a group, are especially venerated in France and Germany.
Saint Vitus Cathedral is a cathedral in Prague, seat of the archbishop, within Prague Castle.
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