A: According to legend, which has no apparent historical value, Vitus was the young, Christian son of a senator of Lucania. He resisted his father's attempts, with v
…arious forms of torture, to make him turn away from his faith, then fled with his tutors to Lucania. From there he went to Rome to drive out a demon which had taken possession of a son of the Emperor Diocletian. This he did, but because he remained steadfast in the Christian faith, he was tortured together with his tutors. By a miracle an angel brought back the three to Lucania, where they died from the tortures they had endured. Another legend says that he was thrown in a cauldron of boiling tar and lead, but escaped unscathed. (MORE) 
