Maura of Troyes

Saint Maura of Troyes was a virgin of a noble family of Troyes in France, born in 827, who gave herself to prayer and good works and reposed at twenty-⁠three, in 850.

From childhood she prayed much and, according to tradition, she brought her father, Mauranus, to the faith; until then he had lived worldly. After his death she stayed at home, praying, serving the poor and caring for her mother. By her example her brother Eutropius grew strong in faith and later became bishop of Troyes. She loved to help the priests and the cathedral: she made sacred vestments, trimmed the candles and filled the lamps. Bishop Prudentius, a friend of hers, wore an alb woven by her hands. She began each day in church, fasted on Wednesdays and Fridays, living on a little bread and water, and sometimes walked several miles to her spiritual father.

She was buried in the cemetery of Château-⁠Nore-⁠de-⁠Troyes. It is told that the water in which her body was washed turned to milk, and a young man ill with burning fever and a young woman with a mark on her cheek were healed by drinking it. The community honoured her as a saint. She is commemorated on 21 September, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.