Vitus«Vito»

(c. 290–c. 303)

Martyr

one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (Vierzehn Nothelfer)

Place of birth:Province of Sicily (Roman Empire)^†

Place of death:Province of Lucania and Bruttium (Dioecēsis Italiciana) (Roman Empire)^††

Feastday

15 June

Patronage

Patron of:Czech Republic^†††; Forio^††††; het Gooi^{†††††}; Mazara del Vallo^{††††††}; Prague^{†††††††}; Rijeka^{††††††††}; Serbia^{†††††††††}; Sicily^{††††††††††}; Vacha; Winschoten^{†††††††††††}; Zeven

Patron of:actors, comedians, coppersmiths, dancers, dogs, hens, The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus

Petitioned for: protection of domestic animals

Invoked against:bed-wetting, chorea {Saint Vitus' Dance}, cramps, epilepsy, lightning, oversleeping, seizures, snakebite, storms, wild animal attacks

^†Provincia Sicilia (Imperium Romanum) / ἐπαρχία Σικελία (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [241 BC–297]

^††Provincia Lucania et Bruttium (Dioecēsis Italiciana) (Imperium Romanum) / ἐπαρχία Λευκανίας και Μπρούτιουμς (Διοίκησις Ιταλίας) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [292–306]

^†††Češka / Česká republika [1993– ]

^††††Forio d'Ischia

^{†††††}'t Gooi

^{††††††}Mazzara / Mazar

^{†††††††}Praha

^{††††††††}Rika / Reka / Fiume / Sankt Veit am Flaum / Pflaum / Tharsatica / Vitopolis / Flumen

^{†††††††††}Srbija

^{††††††††††}Sicilia

^{†††††††††††}Winschoot

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:

D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.

Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.

Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.

Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990

and the following websites:

Saints.SQPN.com

Santi, beati e testimoni - Enciclopedia dei Santi

Santi e beati della Toscana

eCatholicHub Catholic Saints Database

The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee

Martyrologium Romanum - Index Generalis

www.synaxaristis - ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ

Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (An index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes)

Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England: Database Home

focal.ie - Dictionary of Irish Terms - Foclóir Téarmaíochta

logainm.ie - Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann - Placenames Database of Ireland

Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia