Two Christians, Modestus and crescentia, taught young Vitus and converted him without his father's knowledge.
"From a Terrace in Prague"
Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
St. Alexander under Antoninus; St. Potitus, 168; St. Eleutherius, bishop of Illyria, under Hadrian; St Maximus, son of a senator, 284; and Vitus, crescentia, and Modesta, under Domitian, were also martyred here.
"Walks in Rome"
Augustus J.C. Hare