Name
Vitus and companions, martyrs of Sicily and Lucania
Saint ID
S00599
Number in BH
BHL 8711-8715, BHG 1876-1876c
Reported Death Not Before
302
Reported Death Not After
305
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
| ID | Title | E00690 | The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, closes with the church and grave of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036) on the 'via Vaticana', north-west of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 625/649. A description of the basilica, added in the later 8th c., lists many of the altars of saints within the church. | E02521 | The Latin Martyrdom of *Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia (martyrs of Sicily and Lucania, S00599), preserved in variant versions perhaps based on an earlier Greek text, narrates the miracles of the boy Vitus in Sicily and Lucania; the tortures he endured with his companions under Diocletian in Rome; their deaths and burial by the aristocrat Florentia at a place called Marinus near the river Siler in Lucania. Written in Rome at an uncertain date, by the 9th c. at the latest. | E04852 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 15 June. | E04853 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 16 June. | E05856 | The Calendar of Willibrord, in its earliest version, records the feasts of various saints in June. Written in Latin at Echternach, Frisia (north-east Gaul), 703/710. | E06445 | Gregory the Great in two papal letters (Register 14.16 and 14.17) of 604, to Leo, bishop of Catania, raises concerns about a monastery dedicated to *Vitus (martyr of Sicily and Lucania, S00599) on Mount Etna (Sicily). Written in Latin in Rome. | E06586 | The Latin Gelasian Sacramentary (or Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae), probably compiled around 750 near Paris using earlier material from Rome, records prayers to saints on their feast days in June. | E07368 | The Greek Martyrdom of *Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia (martyrs of Sicily and Lucania, S00599). Skeleton entry | E08397 | The will of Somnatius, bishop of Reims (c. 613 - after 626), leaves property and money to many churches at Reims and elsewhere in northern Gaul. Will of c. 620; summary, written in Latin in the 940s by Flodoard, in his History of the Church of Reims (2.5). |
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