Vitus
3rd or 4th-century Sicilian saint
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ItalyA Sicilian martyr whose medieval cult gave its name to a neurological disorder: "Saint Vitus Dance" came from the ecstatic dancing performed at his feast, linking him forever to chorea and making him patron saint of dancers.
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Vitus was a Christian martyr from Sicily, though his hagiography is pure legend and the dates of his actual life are unknown. Early sources show he was originally separate from the figures Modestus and Crescentia—likely fictitious—who later became attached to his story. According to tradition, he died during the Diocletianic Persecution in AD 303. By the Middle Ages he had risen to become one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, and in Germany his feast on 15 June was celebrated with dancing before his statue. The practice grew so popular that when doctors encountered the involuntary movements of Syd…
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