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.
While we know of St Maurice’s patronage
of The Infantry, the question remains:
Did he speak with pizmotality
to 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."
Pinged: this may interest you all