From the Prologue of Ochrid
Saint Vitus was born in Sicily of illustrious but unbelieving parents. Modestus was his teacher and Crescentia his nurse. Saint Vitus was baptized early and already in his twelfth year embarked upon a great ascetical struggle. Angels appeared to him and guided and strengthened him in his struggle, and he himself was radiant and beautiful as an angel of God. The hand of the judge who beat him withered, and Vitus healed his hand by prayer. His father was blinded when he saw in his son's room twelve holy angels "whose eyes were like stars and faces like lightning." But Vitus restored his sight by prayer. When his father wished to kill him, an angel appeared to him and led him, together with Modestus and Crescentia, to Lucania, to the bank of the River Siler. And there Saint Vitus showed many miracles upon the sick and the demented. At the summons of Emperor Diocletian he went to Rome where he cast out an evil spirit from the emperor's son, for which the emperor did not reward him but, on the contrary, fiercely tortured him, because he would not bow before the foolish idols. But the Lord delivered him from all tortures and by His invisible hand transported him again to Lucania, where he, Modestus, and Crescentia all departed to the Lord. The relics of Saint Vitus are in Prague.
