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St. Vitus
- Martyr
Born - c.290 in Sicily
Died - c.303 in
Lucania
Statue
created - c.1702-1703
On 13 January 1702 he undertook to
execute the statue, and delivered it on 14 March 1703.
Sculptor
- Girolamo Gramignoli
He received 60 scudi for the statue
and 20 for the dog.
Height
- 3.1 m. (10ft 4in) travertine
Depicted as a child, he
bends to pat a dog, his traditional attribute.
Artistic work in stucco of the highest quality was rare at the
end of the seventeenth century This work is
characterized by a semingly open and waving movement.
The
Roman Martyrology 2004 simply lists St Vitus as a martyr of
Lucania at an unknown date. A legend has him repeatedly arrested and tortured during the fourth
century, along with his tutor Modestus (75) and his nurse
Crescenzia. He is a patron of epileptics.
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Saints on South Colonnade
Charlemagne Wing
75.
Modestus, 74. Vitus
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Saints on South Colonnade
Charlemagne Wing
77.
Prudentiana, 76. Praxedes
75.
Modestus, 74. Vitus
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Sources:
The Book of Saints, ©2002 Edited by Dom Basil Watkins, OSB
Le Statue Berniniani del Colonnato di San Pietro by Valentino
Martinelli ©1987 by de Luca
Editore
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