Saint Maurus

Saint

Maurus

O.S.B.
Saint Benedict orders Saint Maurus to the rescue of Saint Placid
by Friar Filippo Lippi, O.Carm. (ca.1445).
BornJanuary 1, 512
Africa
DiedJanuary 15, 584
not for sure
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church[1]
Feastbefore 1969: January 15; after 1969: November 22
Attributescrutch; weighing scale; young man in the garb of a monk, holding an abbot's cross and a spade.
Patronagecripples; invoked against rheumatism, epilepsy, gout, hoarseness, cold; Azores; charcoal burners; cobblers; coppersmiths; shoemakers

Maurus (French: Maur; Italian: Mauro) (512–584) was the first disciple of Benedict of Nursia. He is mentioned in Gregory the Great's biography of the latter as the first oblate, offered to the monastery by his noble Roman parents as a young boy to be brought up in the monastic life.

Four stories involving Maurus recounted by Gregory formed a pattern for the ideal formation of a Benedictine monk. The most famous of these involved Maurus's rescue of Placidus, a younger boy offered to Benedict at the same time as Maurus. The incident has been reproduced in many medieval and Renaissance paintings.

Maurus is venerated on January 15 in the 2001 Roman Martyrology[2] and on the same date along with Placid in the Proper Masses for the Use of the Benedictine Confederation.[3]

  1. ^ January 28 / January 15. https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/htc/orthodox-calendar/
  2. ^ Martyrologium Romanum (in Latin) (2 ed.). Administrationem Patrimonii Sedis Apostolicae in Civitate Vaticana. 2004. p. 100.
  3. ^ Proper Masses for the Use of the Benedictine Confederation. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press. 1975. p. 9.