According to unreliable legend, Saint Vitus - the only son of a senator in Sicily - became a Christian when he was twelve. When his conversions and miracles became widely known to the administrator of Sicily, Valerian, he had Vitus brought before him, to shake his faith. Vitus with his tutor, Modestus, and servant, Crescentia, fled to Lucania and then to Rome, where he freed Emperor Diocletian's son of an evil spirit. This was attributed to sorcery, and the three of them were subjected to various methods of torture, yet they emerged unscathed. They were freed when during a storm, temples were destroyed and an angel guided them back to Lucania, where they eventually died. He is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and is the patron of epileptics, those afflicted with St. Vitus' Dance (named after him}, dancers, and actors, and is a protector against storms.
Feast day: 15th June