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Holy Hieromartyrs

Maurus of Reims

A priest slain for Christ at Reims in Gaul around 260.

Feast
August 22old style September 4
Reposed
2603rd century
Place
Rheims
Order
Martyrs

Life

Maurus of Reims was a priest at Reims in Gaul and the leader of a group of fifty martyrs who suffered there around the year 260. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 22 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 4 September of the civil calendar.

Commemorated the same day August 22