ST See also:

• ST VITUS (German, Veit; French, Guy)

VITUS (See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German, See also:

• VEIT, PHILIPP (1793-1877)

Veit; See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, See also:

• GUY, THOMAS (1644–1724)

Guy)  . According to the See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, where he is associated with Modestus and Crescentia, by whom he had been brought up, St See also:

• VITUS, ST (German, Veit; French, Guy)

Vitus suffered martyrdom at a very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age under the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• DIOCLETIAN (GAIUs AURELIUS VALERIUS DIOCLETIANUS) (A.D. 245–313)
• DIOCLETIAN, EDICT OF (De Pretiis rerum venalium)

Diocletian . Son of a Sicilian nobleman who was a worshipper of idols, Vitus was converted to the See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian faith without the knowledge of his See also:

• FATHER

father, was denounced by him and scourged, but resisted all attacks on his profession . Admonished by an See also:

• ANGEL

angel, he crossed the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea to Lucania and went to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, where he suffered See also:

• MARTYR (Gr. pimp or µaprvs)

martyr-dom . His festival is celebrated on the 15th of See also:

• JUNE

June . The See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

Passion of St Vitus has no See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical value, but his name occurs in the Martyrologium hieronymianum . In 836 the See also:

• ABBEY (Lat. abbatia; from Syr. abba, father)
• ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852– )

abbey of See also:

• CORVEY

Corvey, in See also:

• SAXONY
• SAXONY (Ger. Provinz Sachsen)

Saxony, received his See also:

• RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

relics, and became a very active centre of his cult . In the second See also:

• HALF

half of the gth See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the monks of Corvey, according to See also:

• HELMOLD

Helmold's Chronica Slavorum, evangelized the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of See also:

• RUGEN

Rugen, where they built a See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of St Vitus . The islanders soon relapsed, but they kept up the superstitious cult of the See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint (whom they honoured as a See also:

• GOD

god), returning to See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity three centuries later . At See also:

• PRAGUE (Ger. Prag; Bohemian Praha)

Prague, too, there are some relics of the saint, who is the See also:

• PATRON

patron of Bohemia and also of Saxony, and one of the fourteen " protectors " (Nothhelfer) of the church in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany . Among the diseases against which St Vitus is invoked is chorea, also known as St Vitus's See also:

• DANCE
• DANCE (Fr. danse; of obscure origin, connected with Old High Ger. danson, to stretch)

Dance . See Acta sanctorum, June, iii .

1013-42 and vi . 137-40; Bibliotheca hagiographica See also:

• LATINA, VIA

Latina (See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, 1899), n . 8711-23; J . H . Kessel, " St See also:

• VEIT, PHILIPP (1793-1877)

Veit, See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

seine Geschichte, Verehrung and bildliche Darstellungen," in Jahrbilcher See also:

• DES

des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden See also:

• IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im Rheinlande (1867), pp . 152-83 . (H .