Feast Day: June 15
Born: 290, Sicily
Died: 303, Lucania, modern-day Basilicata, Italy
Patron of: actors; comedians; Czechoslovakia; dancers; dogs; epilepsy; Mazara del Vallo, Sicily; Forio, Ischia; oversleeping; Prague, Czech Republic; rheumatic chorea (Saint Vitus Dance); snake bites; storms; Vacha, Germany; Zeven, Lower Saxony
Feast Day: June 15
Born: 1579, Pibrac, France
Died: 1601, Pibrac, France
Canonized: 29 June 1867 by Pope Pius IX
Patron of: abandoned people; abuse victims; against poverty; bodily ills; child abuse victims; disabled people; girls from rural areas; handicapped people; illness; impoverishment; loss of parents; peasant girls; physically challenged people; poverty; shepherdesses; sick people; sickness; unattractive people; victims of abuse; victims of child abuse; young country girls