Saint Maurice
Coptic icon of St. Maurice
Born	3rd century, Thebes, Egypt
Died	287, Agaunum, Switzerland
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church, Coptic Orthodox Church
Canonized	Pre-Congregation for the Causes of Saints
Major shrine	Abbaye de Saint-Maurice d'Agaune (until 961), Cathedral of Magdeburg (961-present)
Feast	September 22 (West), October 5 = Thout 5 (East)
Attributes	banner; soldier; soldier being executed with other soldiers,(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Saint_Maurice_Magdeburg.jpg) knight; Black African in full armour, bearing a standard and a palm; knight in armour with a red cross on his breast, which is the badge of the Sardinian Order of Saint Maurice
Patronage	against cramps; alpine troops; [1]Appenzell Innerrhoden; [2]armies;[1] armorers; Burgundians; Carolingian dynasty; [2] Austria; clothmakers; cramps; dyers; gout; infantrymen;[1] Lombards; Merovingians; [2] Piedmont, Italy; Pontifical Swiss Guards;[1] Saint-Maurice-en-Valais; St. Moritz;[2]Sardinia;[1] Savoyards;[2] soldiers; Stadtsulza, Germany; swordsmiths; weavers; Holy Roman Emperors [1]
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Saint Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius) was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century, and one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that group. He was the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms. Saint Maurice was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1892. ... Image File history File links StMaurice2. ... Christ - Coptic Art Coptic Orthodox Christianity is the indigenous form of Christianity that, according to tradition, the apostle Mark established in Egypt in the middle of the 1st century AD (approximately AD 60). ... Look up icon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Thebes Thebes (, ThÄ“bai) is the Greek designation of the ancient Egyptian niwt (The) City and niwt-rst (The) Southern City. It is located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile (). 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The Theban legion figures in hagiography as an entire Roman legion — of six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men — who had converted to Christianity and were martyred together, in 286 A.D., according to the hagiographies of Saint Maurice, the chief among the Legions saints. ... // Overview Events 212: Constitutio Antoniniana grants citizenship to all free Roman men 212-216: Baths of Caracalla 230-232: Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east 235-284: Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire 250-538: Kofun era, the first...

Legend

According to the hagiographical material the legion, entirely composed of Christians, had been called from Thebes in Egypt to Gaul to assist Maximian to defeat a revolt by the Bagandæ.^[3] However, when Maximian ordered them to harass some local Christians, they refused and Maximian ordered the unit punished. Every tenth soldier was killed, a military punishment known as decimation. More orders followed, they still refused, due in part to encouragement from Maurice, and a second decimation was ordered. In response to their refusal to use violence against fellow Christians, Maximian ordered all the remaining members of the 6,600 unit executed. The place in Switzerland where this occurred, known as Agaunum, is now Saint Maurice-en-Valais, site of the Abbey of Saint Maurice-en-Valais. Hagiography is the study of saints. ... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ... For the ancient capital of Boeotia, see Thebes, Greece. ... Gaul (Latin: ) was the name given,in ancient times, to the region of Western Europe comprising present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. ... Maximian Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus Herculius (c. ... Decimation (Latin: decimatio) was a form of extreme military discipline used by officers in the Roman Army to punish mutinous or cowardly soldiers. ... For other uses, see Violence (disambiguation). ... Roman Agaunum, the modern Saint Maurice-en-Valais in southwesternmost Switzerland, was a minor post confined between the Rhone and the mountains along the well-travelled road that led from Roman Genava, modern Geneva, over the Alps by the Great St Bernard Pass to Italy. ... Roman Agaunum, the modern Saint Maurice-en-Valais in southwesternmost Switzerland, was a minor post confined between the Rhone and the mountains along the well-travelled road that led from Roman Genava, modern Geneva, over the Alps by the Great St Bernard Pass to Italy. ...

So reads the earliest account of their martyrdom, according to the public letter Eucherius, bishop of Lyon (c. 434–450), addressed to his fellow bishop Salvius. Alternate versions have the legion refusing Maximian's orders only after discovering a town they had just destroyed had been inhabited by innocent Christians, or that the emperor had them executed when they refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods. For other uses, see Martyr (disambiguation). ... Saint Eucherius, Bishop of Lyon (died about 449) was a high-born and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian Church of Gaul who is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation. ... Hes an archbishop of Lyon. ... Events Aetius a general in the service of emperor Valentinian III holds power in Rome for twenty years. ... Events August 25 - Marcian proclaimed Eastern Roman Emperor by Aspar and Pulcheria. ...

Details of this story rest on tenuous historical grounds: for example, decimation had not been used to discipline a Roman legion for centuries: the previous documented execution of this sentence was in the reign of Galba, who ordered this done to a formation of marines that Nero had formed into a legion, and who demanded an eagle and standards. Further, Christians commonly refused to serve in the military, and the military staunchly followed Isis or Mithras (Sol Invictus), until Constantine's time at the earliest, making it unlikely they filled an entire legion. Servius Sulpicius Galba (December 24, 3 BC – January 15, 69) was Roman Emperor from June 8, 68 until his death. ... For other uses, see Nero (disambiguation). ... Legio I Adiutrix (assistant), was a Roman legion formed in 68 AD, possibly by Galba under orders of Nero. ... Denarius minted by Mark Antony to pay his legions. ... This article discusses the ancient goddess Isis. ... This article or section contains too much jargon and may need simplification or further explanation. ... Coin of Emperor Probus, circa 280, with Sol Invictus riding a quadriga, with legend SOLI INVICTO, to the Unconquered Sun. Note how the Emperor (on the left) wears a radiated solar crown, worn also by the god (to the right). ... For other uses, see Constantine I (disambiguation). ...

Some historians^{[attribution needed]} suggest that this was a pious fabrication by Theodore, bishop of Octodurum, sometime between 388 and 394, whom Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, cites as his source of this story, to encourage his contemporary Christians serving in the Roman army to ignore the orders of their pagan superiors and instead side with the Christians. If it was a later fabrication, by Eucherius himself, its dissemination was certainly successful in drawing pilgrims to the abbey at Aguanum. That institution was created ex nihilo from 515 onwards by Sigismund, the first Catholic king of the Burgundians. The abbey was unique in its time as the creation of a king working in concord with bishops, rather than an organic development that occurred round the central figure of a holy monk. The new abbey was without doubt in need of a strong founding legend. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion (Latin Sedunensis), in the Swiss canton of Valais, is the oldest bishopric in Switzerland and one of the oldest north of the Alps. ... // Events Bahram IV becomes king of Persia. ... Events September 6 - Battle of the Frigidus: The christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast. ... Pagan and heathen redirect here. ... Sigismund (died 524) was king of the Burgundians from 516 to his death. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

When Bertran de la Farge (in La Croix occitane) located the original Occitan cross somewhere in the marquisate of Provence, probably Venasque. He argued it could be a mixture of the Constantinople cross and the Coptic cross [1], which was brought to Provence by monks and maybe also through Saint Maurice. The Occitan cross — also cross of Occitania, cross of Languedoc, Cathar cross and Toulouse cross,— is the symbol of Occitania. ... Orginal Coptic cross The original Coptic cross has its origin in the Coptic ankh symbol and was adopted by early Christian Gnostics in Egypt. ...

Veneration

Saint Maurice became a patron saint of the Holy Roman Emperors. In 926, Henry I (919–936), even ceded the present Swiss canton of Aargau to the abbey, in return for Maurice's lance, sword and spurs. The sword and spurs of Saint Maurice was part of the regalia used at coronations of the Austro-Hungarian Emperors until 1916, and among the most important insignia of the imperial throne. In addition, some of the emperors were anointed before the Altar of Saint Maurice at St. Peter's Basilica. ^[2] In 929 Henry I the Fowler held a royal court gathering (Reichsversammlung) at Magdeburg. At the same time the Mauritius Kloster in honor of Maurice was founded. In 961, Otto I was building and enriching the cathedral at Magdeburg, which he intended for his own tomb. To that end, Saint Quentin is the patron saint of locksmiths and is also invoked against coughs and sneezes. ... The Holy Roman Emperor was, with some variation, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, the predecessor of modern Germany, during its existence from the 10th century until its collapse in 1806. ... Events Bohai is conquered by the Khitan Births Emperor Murakami of Japan Deaths Categories: 926 ... Heinrich I depicted as The Bamberg Knight Henry I, the Fowler (German: Heinrich der Finkler or Heinrich der Vogler) (876 - July 2, 936), was Duke of Saxony from 912 and king of the Germans from 919 until his death in 936. ... Events King Edward I of England conquers Bedford. ... Events King Taejo of Goryeo (Wanggeon) defeats Hubaekje. ... The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... For other uses, see Aargau (disambiguation). ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... This article is about the famous building in Rome. ... Events Emir Abd-ar-rahman III of Cordoba declares himself caliph. ... Henry I, the Fowler (German, Heinrich der Vogler) (876 - July 2, 936), was duke of Saxony from 912 and king of the Germans from 919 until his death in 936. ... This article is about the German city. ... Events Byzantine Empire recaptures Crete from Muslim control Ani made the capital of Armenia by the Bagratid dynasty Haakon I of Norway squashed the rebelling forces of Eric Bloodaxes sons but was killed in the Battle of Fitje. ... For others with the same name, see Otto I (disambiguation). ... This article is about the German city. ...

in the year 961 of the Incarnation and in the twenty-fifth year of his reign, in the presence of all of the nobility, on the vigil of Christmas, the body of St. Maurice was conveyed to him at Regensburg along with the bodies of some of the saint's companions and portions of other saints. Having been sent to Magdeburg, these relics were received with great honour by a gathering of the entire populace of the city and of their fellow countrymen. They are still venerated there, to the salvation of the homeland. ^[4]

"Meeting of Saint Erasmus of Formiae and Saint Maurice" by Matthias Grünewald (1517-23), Alte Pinakothek. Grünewald used Albert of Mainz, who commissioned the painting, as the model for St. Erasmus.

Maurice is traditionally depicted in full armor, in Italy emblasoned with a red cross. In folk culture he has become connected with the legend of the Spear of Destiny, which he is supposed to have carried into battle; his name is engraved on the Holy Lance of Vienna, one of several relics claimed as the spear that pierced Jesus' side on the cross. Saint Maurice gives his name to the town St. Moritz as well as to numerous places called Saint-Maurice in French speaking countries. The Indian Ocean island state of Mauritius was named after Maurice of Nassau, a member of the House of Orange, and not directly after St. Mauritius himself. Image File history File links Saint_maurice. ... Image File history File links Saint_maurice. ... The martyrdom of St. ... The Crucifixion, central panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece Matthias Grünewald (1470-1528) is a highly regarded figure from the German Renaissance. ... The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinakothek) is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. ... Cardinal Albert of Hohenzollern, Archbishop of Mainz and Magdeburg: engraved portrait by Albrecht Dürer, 1519 Cardinal Albert of Hohenzollern (German: Albrecht; June 28, 1490 in Cölln – September 24, 1545 in Aschaffenburg), Elector and Archbishop of Mainz and Archbishop of Magdeburg, was the younger son of John Cicero, Elector... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Holy Lance. ... According to legend, the Holy Lance (also known as the Spear of Destiny, Holy Spear, Lance of Longinus, Spear of Longinus or Spear of Christ) is the lance that pierced Jesus while he was on the cross. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... St. ... This article is about Roman Legion leader. ... Maurice of Nassau (in Dutch Maurits van Nassau) (14 November 1567–23 April 1625), Prince of Orange (1618–1625), son of William the Silent and Princess Anna of Saxony, was born at the castle of Dillenburg. ...

Over 650 religious foundations dedicated to Saint Maurice can be found in France and other European countries. In Switzerland alone, 7 churches or altars in Aargau, 6 in the Canton of Lucerne, 4 in the Canton of Solothurn, and 1 in Appenzell Innerrhoden can be found. In fact, his feast day in a cantonal holiday in Appenzell Innerrhoden.^[2]Particularly notable among these are the Church and Abbey of Saint-Maurice-en-Valais, the Church of Saint Moritz in the Engadin, and the Monastery Chapel of Einsiedeln Abbey, where his name continues to be greatly revered. Several chivalric orders were established in his honor as well, including the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Order of Saint Maurice.^[2] Additionally, fifty-two towns and villages in France have been named in his honor.^[5] For other uses, see Aargau (disambiguation). ... Lucerne (German Luzern) is a canton of Switzerland. ...   is a canton of Switzerland. ... Appenzell Innerrhoden (German; French: Appenzell Rhodes-Intérieures; in English sometimes Appenzell Inner Rhodes) is a canton of Switzerland. ... The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with a saint, and referring to the day as the saints day of that saint. ... For other uses, see Holiday (disambiguation). ... Lej da Segl and Lej da Silvaplauna, Upper Engadin Piz Roseg and Vadret da Roseg as seen from Fuorcla Surlej The Engadine (German: Engadin, Romansch: Engiadina) is a long mountain valley located in the canton of Graubünden in southeast of Switzerland. ... , Einsiedeln abbey Einsiedeln abbey Lady Fountain Einsiedeln is a Benedictine monastery in Einsiedeln town, in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, that title being derived from the circumstances of its foundation, from which the name Einsiedeln is also said to have originated. ... Chivalric Orders were created by European monarchs after the failure of the Crusades. ... The founder, Philip the Good , with at least six other Members wearing collars, 1447-8 Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, with the collar of the Order The Order of the Golden Fleece (Spanish: Orden del Toisón de Oro) is an order of chivalry founded in 1430 by Duke Philip... Order of Saint Maurice is awarded the National Infantry Association and the Chief of Infantry of the United States Army The five levels of the Order of Saint Maurice are Primicerius, Centurion, Legionnaire, Peregrinus, Civis and Shield of Sparta. ...

Maurice is also the patron saint of a Roman Catholic parish and church in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, and including part of the town of Arabi in St. Bernard parish.. The church was constructed in 1856, making it one of the oldest currently used churches in the area. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The Ninth ward is a distinctive region of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States that is located in the eastern downriver portion of the city. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... Arabi is an unincorporated community located in St. ... St. ...

Ethnicity

St. Maurice is sometimes represented as a black Moor, which is actually the meaning of his name.^{[citation needed]} According to Jean Devisse, a historian, it was not until 1240 that St. Maurice appeared as a black man; prior to that, Devisse says he had been depicted as a white man.^[6][7] Because of this discrepancy, Maurice is depicted as possessing characteristics of both ethnic groups. The oldest available images of Saint Maurice at the Cathedral of Magdeburg which began construction in 937 A.D. are images in which Maurice is depicted as a black man. Look up moor, Moor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Events Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kyiv Births Pope Benedict XI Deaths April 11 - Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, also known as Llywelyn The Great Prince of Gwynedd Monarchs/Presidents Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276) Castile... “Whites” redirects here. ...

There is evidence to indicate that Maurice was Egyptian. The Coptic Greek name "Maurikios" appears in the papyri and is identical with the later Roman name "Mauritius", according to G. Heuser in his Personennamen der Kopten. Other parties have suggested that the name may be derived from the name of Lake Moeris. Coptic is an adjective referring to the original inhabitants of Egypt, the Copts. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... Lake Moeris was an ancient lake located in the Fayum depression, 80 km southwest of Cairo in Egypt. ...

In fact, the name is found in epitaths of the Ptolemaic Egypt and Egyptian Christian periods, and is still used as a personal name in Egypt's Coptic community.^[2] The Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt began following Alexander the Greats conquest in 332 BC and ended with the death of Cleopatra VII and the Roman conquest in 30 BC. It was founded when Ptolemy I Soter declared himself Pharaoh of Egypt, creating a powerful Hellenistic state from southern Syria... Christ and Saint Mina. ... Religions Coptic Orthodox Christianity, Coptic Catholicism, Protestantism Scriptures Bible Languages Mari, Coptic, Arabic, English, French, German A Copt (Coptic: , literally: Egyptian Christian) is a native Egyptian Christian. ...

Gallery

Statue of Saint Maurice from the Magdeburg Cathedral. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (595x1254, 140 KB) Saint Maurice in the Cathedral of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, next to the grave of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. ... View of Magdeburg with the cathedral on the right The Cathedral of Magdeburg, officially called the Cathedral of Saints Catherine and Maurice (known as Magdeburger Dom in German) was the first Gothic cathedral in Germany and with a height of 104 m, it is the tallest cathedral in the former...	18th century Baroque sculpture of Saint Maurice on the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, which was a part of the Austrian Empire in that time, now the Czech Republic. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 1709 KB) en: Statue of Saint Maurice on the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc in Olomouc (Czech Republic). ... Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state. ... To the glory of God the Almighty, the Virgin Mary and the saints I will build a column that in its height and splendour will be unrivalled in any other town. ... Anthem Volkshymne (Peoples Anthem) The Austrian Empire Capital Vienna Language(s) German Hungarian Romanian Czech Slovakian Slovenian Croatian Serbian Italian Polish Ruthenian Religion Roman Catholic Government Monarchy History  - Established 1804  - Ausgleich 1867 The Crown of the Austrian Emperor The Austrian Empire (German: ) was a modern era successor empire founded...	"The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice" by El Greco. 1580-82 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 382 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (510 × 800 pixel, file size: 86 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Faithful reproductions of two-dimensional original works cannot attract copyright in the U.S. according to the rule in Bridgeman Art Library v. ... El Greco (The Greek, 1541 – April 7, 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. ...	A statue of Saint Maurice, located in Soultz Haut-Rhin, France. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 1600 pixel, file size: 498 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A statue of Saint Maurice, located in Soultz Haut-Rhin, France. ...
"The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice" by Romulo Cincinato. 1583. Oil on canvas, 540 x 288 cm, Monasterio de San Lorenzo, El Escorial, Spain. Cincinnato placed stronger emphasis on the execution scene, which has been brought into the foreground. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 320 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (650 × 1218 pixel, file size: 123 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Faithful reproductions of two-dimensional original works cannot attract copyright in the U.S. according to the rule in Bridgeman Art Library v. ... Romulo Cincinato (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active in Spain. ...	Jean Hey. "Portrait of Francis de Chateaubriand Presented by St. Maurice. c. 1500". Tempera on wood. Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, Glasgow, UK. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 503 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (603 × 718 pixel, file size: 39 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Faithful reproductions of two-dimensional original works cannot attract copyright in the U.S. according to the rule in Bridgeman Art Library v. ...

See also

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Notes

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External links

• On the image of the Blackamoor in European Heraldry - St. Maurice
• David Wood, "The Origin of the Cult of St. Maurice"
• Saint Maurice from the Golden Legend
• [2] - Coptic Orthodox Church Network, "Saint

Maurice of Theba"