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SAINT VITUS, MODESTUS AND CRESCENTIA, MARTYRS Vitus was baptized still child – he was fifteen years old – to the unbeknownst to the Pagan father; who, just after getting to know it, did not omit anything to detach the son from the Christian religion. And since he remained inflexible, he handed him to the judge Valerian to punish him by beating him. But persisting always in his resolution, he was returned to the father. But the father thought of punishing him more severely, Vitus, warned by an Angel, emigrated, accompanied by his preceptor Modestus and his nurse Crescentia, in foreign land, from Sicily to Lucania; where he reached such reputation of sanctity, that when the fame reached Diocletian, this emperor called him, so that he would free the son from diabolical nuisance.