Vitalissimus

Saint Vitalissimus is a martyr of the early centuries of the Church, put to death in the Roman persecutions and venerated by the Catholic Church. According to the inscription inside the urn in which his remains are kept, he was a young man of twenty-⁠five who received martyrdom on 4 June and was buried in the catacombs of Cyriaca at Rome, from which his body was taken. The ampoule of blood in the urn is regarded as testimony of the martyrdom.

The reliquary with his relics was kept in a chapel of the Rinuccini palace in Florence. On 16 October 1858, by the will of the marchioness Eleonora Rinuccini Corsini, last heir of the family, the relics were moved to the church of Faella, so that the saint might be better known and venerated, almost as a votive gift of the old family to the community of Faella before its extinction.