Saint Maurice
Egyptian saint and leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion · Egypt · Religious Figures · Lived 250 to 287 · aged 37
Saint Maurice is read about 640 times a day, in 39 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?An Egyptian soldier commanding Rome's Theban Legion in the 3rd century who became one of Christianity's most venerated martyrs - patron of professions, cities, and entire kingdoms despite almost no surviving detail of his actual life.
A life in dates
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Mauritius Kopf
Annullo postale, realizzato dall’ alp. Errico BIGANTE
Buies - Le Saguenay et le bassin du Lac St-Jean, 1896 ill p17
Cathédrale Saint-Maurice de Vienne - Tapestry1
Cathédrale Saint-Maurice de Vienne - Tapestry2
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Epinal - quartier basilique
FETE DE LA SAINT MAURICEAbout this person
Maurice led the Theban Legion under Roman command in the 3rd century, an Egyptian at the head of a unit that would become legendary not for its victories but for its end. The legion was martyred, and Maurice with it. What survives is not biography but afterlife: his veneration spread across Europe, his patronage claimed by craftsmen, regions, and royal houses. The specifics dissolved into devotion. He remains a saint of breadth rather than depth, his name carried forward by the reach of his cult rather than the record of his days.
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