1. Vitus was heaved into a vat of boiling water, from which he miraculously emerged unharmed.

2. This is the St. Vitus Cathedral. Construction originally started in 1344, but what's interesting is that construction didn't end until about the 20th century.

3. Fireworks light up the sky over St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle to celebrate the New Year in the Czech Republic, Jan. 1, 2007.

4. From there Peter the Great, an Enlightenment man, sent expeditions of scientific inquiry to search for a strait between Asia and America, and in 1741 Vitus Bering found Alaska.

5. Half the population of Kamchatka lives in the capital city, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, founded by the Danish explorer Vitus Bering in 1740 and named after his twin ships, Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

6. The severe disease bearing the name of American physician George Huntington has been known under various other names, including Chorea major, or St. Vitus Dance, for a long time.