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ST MAURICE - 22nd SEPTEMBER

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1. St Maurice was a leader (primicerius) of the Theban Legion, massacred at Agaunum, about 287 (303), by order of Maximian Herculius. The legend relates that the legion, composed entirely of Christians, had been called

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2. from Africa to suppress a revolt of the Bagandae in Gaul. The soldiers were ordered to sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving but refused. Every tenth was then killed.

Another order to sacrifice and another refusal caused a second decimation and then a general massacre.
3. St Maurice is represented as a knight in full armour; in Italian paintings with a red cross on his breast, which is the badge of theSardinian Order of St Maurice.

Many places in Switzerland, France, and Germany have him as patron saint, as have also the clothmakers, soldiers
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