St. Alphonsus de Liguori relates the following for St. Vitalis: “As the termination of his struggle approached, the Lord Jesus sent an angel to show him, in a vision, the crown which was being prepared for him in heaven. Whereupon Vitalis, with his dying breath, pronounced this prayer-‘Jesus, my Savior, and my God! Command my longing soul to come to Thee, to receive the crown which has been shown me by Thy angel.’ Having uttered these words, he expired.” (from his work “Victories of the Martyrs”, translated form Italian, edited by Fr. Eugene Grimm, C.SS.R, Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur, 1953.)