Vitus

The hl. Veit also called Latin Vitus (* Mazara, Sicily; † around 304 in Lucania, Southern Italy) died under Diocletian as a martyr. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint and is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.

Legend

According to legend, gave his parents as a child of Veit nurse Crescentia and her husband Modestus to education, who taught him in the Christian faith. When his father found out, he wanted to distract his son from the faith, kill later, Veit but remained steadfast. Veit fled with Crescentia and Modestus after Lucania, where an eagle brought them bread and Veit had all sorts of miracles.

When Emperor Diocletian heard from the boy, he brought him to Rome, because Veit should his son, who was attacked by an evil spirit heal. Although Veit succeeded in this, he should give up his faith and sacrifice to the pagan gods. As Veit refused, he was thrown to the lions so that they shredded him. The lions but lay before him, and licked his feet and did her no harm. Finally, Veit was thrown together with Modestus and Crescentia in boiling oil. Angel rescued her from it and brought it back to Lucania, where they died. Eagle guarding her body until the Florentia widow she found and buried.

Veneration and relics

756 the relics of St. Veit came to the Basilica of Saint- Denis, near Paris, from there 836 as a gift in the first Benedictine monastery in Saxony, which later gefürstete Empire abbey of Corvey on the Weser (est. 822 ), the patron saint Vitus is today. About Corveyer Bendiktinermissionare (eg St. Ansgar ) came Vitus worship and the relics of St.. Vitus further north and east. Thus, in 1355 his main transferred to Prague, there to be kept in the St. Vitus Cathedral, which was built to honor him by King Charles IV.

The hl. Vitus is the patron saint of pharmacists, innkeepers, brewers, wine makers, coppersmiths, dancers and actors, the Saxons, of youth, of pets, of Bohemia, Prague, Mönchengladbach, Ellwangen, Hoexter and Sicily. He is called to cure cramps, epilepsy, rabies, chorea, bedwetting, and snakebite. The day of this saint has a special significance for the Serbian people as Vidovdan.

When the Slavs Sankt Veit is also the mushroom Patron ( = mushroom patron ), the good goblins are at your side, let the mushrooms grow well. When also recurrent in the Middle Ages epilepsy, as well as the dancing feet, he was called. In this "psychic epidemic " people felt the need to form a dance and dance until the total exhaustion occurred. In Slavic countries dominated by the fungus Patron Saint Vitus replaced during the Christianization of the God Svantevit. Svantevit, worshiped as the protector field, rode a white horse and carrying a cornucopia. From the foamy drool his horse mushrooms originated.

The memorial of St. Veit is June 15, which in the Middle Ages as the beginning of Midsummer ( " here like the Sunn nit higher! " ) Was considered.

Patrozinien

See Veitskirche

The hl. Vitus is the patron saint or the naming scheme for the following cities:

  • Sankt Vith in Belgium
  • Neumarkt-Sankt Veit in the district Mühldorf in Bavaria
  • Veitshoechheim in the district of Würzburg in Lower Franconia
  • St. Veit, in the district of White Castle -Gunzenhausen, Middle Franconia
  • Veitsbronn, district of Fürth in Middle Franconia
  • Veitsaurach, in the district of Ansbach in Middle Franconia
  • Veitsteinbach in the district of Fulda, in Hesse
  • Sankt Vit ( Rheda- Wiedenbrück ) in North Rhine -Westphalia
  • Saint -Vit in Franche -Comté
  • Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia
  • St. Veit suburb in Klagenfurt, Carinthia
  • Klein St. Veit ( Feldkirchen in Kärnten)
  • Sankt Veit an der Gölsen in Lower Austria
  • St. Veit an der Triesting in Lower Austria
  • St. Veit im Innkreis in Upper Austria
  • Sankt Veit im Mühlkreisautobahn in Upper Austria
  • Sankt Veit im Pongau in Salzburg
  • Sankt Veit whether Graz in Styria
  • Sankt Veit am Vogau in Styria
  • Sankt Veit in the area in Styria
  • St. Veit in Defereggen in East Tyrol
  • Lower and upper Sankt Veit, districts in the XIII. District of Vienna Hietzing

Videm ( German: Sankt Veit ) in Lower Styria

  • St. Veit in Vas county in Hungary
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