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Icons of Holy Martyr Maurice
(Mavrikios) of Agaunum (now in Switzerland), soldier of the Theban
Legion, martyr for Christ.
Feast: Sept. 22
St. Maurice was the foremost
of a great company of Martyrs who suffered in the year 286 for their
faith in Christ. He and Sts. Exuperius, Candidus, Victor, Innocent, and
their 6,600 companions were sent from Egypt to Agaunum (15 miles from
Lake Geneva) to put down a rebellion against Roman authority. When the
commander ordered sacrifices and oaths in preparation for battle, the
whole legion refused. He had the legion decimated (killed every tenth
man), but this had no effect. So he had the survivors decimated, again
with no effect. Thus every last man was put to death and they reunited,
with wreaths of victory, in their homeland above.
Top Icon: by
the hand of Mother Justina, Greek Old Calendarist convent of St.
Elizabeth, Etna, California.
Next Icon: from the St. Andrew Workshop in France.
Next Icon: by the hand of Mother Justina, with a relic of the
Saint embedded in the framing. This was made in grateful memory of the
reposed Priest Maurice Freemyer of San Antonio, Texas (Milan Synod), at
the bequest of his widow Mary. May his memory
be eternal!
Next Icon: by the hand of Fr. Hieromonk Cassien, Greek Old Calendarist
Hermitage, Clara, France.
Next Icon: by the hand of Fr.
Hieromonk Cassien, Greek Old Calendarist Hermitage, Clara, France.
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Icon: by the hand of Fr. Hieromonk Cassien, Greek Old Calendarist
Hermitage, Clara, France.
Next Icon: by an unknown hand, in Coptic iconographic style. In it are
shown, left to right, Sts. Anthony, Paul of Thebes, and Maurice.
Final Icon: old wall painting, church of St. Gatian of Tours; photo
courtesy of Jean-Michel Dossogne of Belgium. |
