Patron Saint of Oversleeping

Saint Vitus is invoked against oversleeping. According to the traditional account, Vitus was the son of a Sicilian senator who became a Christian as a boy of about twelve. His miracles and conversions drew the hostility of the provincial administrator Valerian, and Vitus fled — with his tutor Modestus and his nurse Crescentia — first to Lucania and then to Rome, where he is said to have healed the emperor Diocletian’s son. When he refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods, he and his companions were tortured and at length died as martyrs in the Roman province of Lucania in southern Italy; their feast is kept on June 15. Because his name became attached in the late Middle Ages to the involuntary movements of Sydenham’s chorea (“St. Vitus’ Dance”), he was widely invoked in matters of the nerves, sleep, and rest, and popular devotion numbered him among the protectors against oversleeping. He is counted among the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Source: catholic.org.