Bring me the head of St. Vitalis

I wouldn't normally write a blog post about another blog post.  After all, you can find these things for yourself.  But I can't help mentioning the latest offering on the always excellent History Blog.

It seems the patron saint of genital diseases was recently auctioned.  Or rather his head was, the rest of his body is elsewhere, and given what he was patron of, some parts further south don't bear thinking about anyway.

The gentleman in question is St Vitalis of Assisi. I'm going to assume he's no relation to Francis.

Who knew there was a patron saint for the clap?