Sculpture of St. Vitus

The sculpture of St. Vitus was created in 1714 by Ferdinand Maxmilián Brokoff, commissioned by Matthias Adalbert of Löwenmacht, dean of the Vyšehrad Chapter. The young Sicilian martyr, clad in the armor of an ancient Roman soldier with a richly draped cloak and a princely cap on his head, on an artificial rock, is surrounded by a pack of miraculously tamed lions, for whom he was served as prey. One of them, the so-called Czech lion, is even licking the saint’s foot. The statue is signed on one of the rock’s protrusions: “OPUS IOAN: BROKOFF.” The sculpture was restored using state-of-the-art laser technology in 2019.