ON S. VITALIS AT SPOLETO IN UMBRIA.
CommentaryVitalis, at Spoleto in Umbria (S.)
That S. Vitalis was customarily venerated at Spoleto in Umbria we learn from the manuscript of S. Jerome. And it is probable that he departed from this life there, whether by natural death or (what is more likely) by martyrdom. The manuscript reads thus: "In the city of Spoleto, Vitalis." Another Vitalis is assigned to this day by the Carthusians of Cologne in the supplement to Usuard: "Vitalis the Martyr of Agaunum, of whom mention is made in the Acts of S. Maurice on 22 September." Whether perhaps relics of that one were in ancient times brought to Spoleto, or whether the compiler of that supplement, having read of a Vitalis, conjectured he was the one from Agaunum; or whether he found him recorded as of Agaunum in some ancient codex, we do not know, since the Acts of the Spoletan Vitalis are themselves lacking.