St Maurice, Pray for our veterans, our brave soldiers and our military. Amen.
Posted on 09/20/2016 9:33:53 AM PDT by mainestategop
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Saint Maurice's feast day is on the 22nd of September. (Two days from right now.) So for my Catholic and Coptic viewers, I present to you, this diddy on the life and martyrdom of St Maurice.
Saint Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius) was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion n 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. He is revered in the Catholic Coptic and Orthodox churches.
He is the patron saint of soldiers, veterans, armorers, clothmakers, dyers and weapons dealers. He is also Patron Saint of the house of Savoy, Piedmont Italy, The Vatican Swiss Guards, Lombardi, The Holy Roman Emperor, Burgundy and Various other fraternities, cities and counties in Europe.
In 287 AD under the order of Emperor Maximian, The Thebans were sent with other Legions to crush the rebellion of the Gauls near the present day borders of Switzerland and Southern France. After this, Maximian ordered the Thebans to kill the local Christian population and perform pagan sacrifices to the Roman Gods including Caesar Maximian who himself is worshiped as a deity.
The theban legion refused this order and suffered decimation twice. After further refusals they were all commanded to be put to death by Maximian. Maurice is considered to be one of the most beloved saints in Europe but is largely unknown in the US. He is also the first black saint to be cannonized.
St Maurice, Pray for our veterans, our brave soldiers and our military. Amen.
St Maurice, Pray for our veterans, our brave soldiers and our military. Amen.
I’m not Catholic, but I do remember learning of him back in my Fort Benning days. St. Maurice, patron saint of infantrymen. The National Infantry Association bestows the Order of Saint Maurice award to those who make a significant contribution in support of the infantry, be it soldiers or civilians.
Just to note: There were plenty of African saints before St Maurice. St Maurice is the first whose skin color is known. Saints from what is now Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, etc., often had some European roots. (Augustine of Hippo, a later saint than St Maurice but just an example of an “African saint”) was from Algeria, but ethnically Italian.
Part of the paucity of black saints before St Morice is our lack of historical record. Most of what we know of the earliest saints comes from places, not writings. The Ethiopian eunuch is presumably black, and presumably a saint. But we don’t know either for sure. He is thought to be Simon Bachos, who was a great preacher both in Antioch and Ethiopia.
By the way, for those who find it incredible that someone from Ethiopia might NOT be black, you’re probably thinking of what the Bible calls, “Abyssinia.” The eunuch was from Cyrene, which is in Libya. But it is very plausible that being an Ethiope was highlighted because most Ethiopes were black.
Oh please. Spare me.
Acts 13:1
Found the biblical reference to “Simon the black,” who is thought to be the Ethiopian eunuch:
“Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger (Black), Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the ruler, and Saul.”
“Oh please. Spare me.”
Care to elaborate?
While we know of St Maurice’s patronage
of The Infantry, the question remains:
Did he speak with pizmotality
to the pompatus of love?
???
It’s a Pop Culture joke.
I guess you had to be there.
Some call him the space cowboy.
“My dearest darling, come closer to Maurice/so I can whisper sweet words of epismetology/in your ear and speak to you of the pompatus of love.”
New rules issued today to try to prevent the influence of money in the process - which apparently, has been common.
"Francis demanded more accountability after it was revealed in two books by Italian journalists that the saint-making process has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations per candidate with virtually no financial oversight."
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