Maurice«Mauritius {Moritz; Murezzan; Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲱⲣⲓⲥ}»

(c. 287)
Martyr
Place of birth:Province of Egypt (Roman Empire)1
Place of death:Province of Alpes Graiae et Poeninae (Diocese of Gaul) (Roman Empire)2
Feastday
22 September
Patronage
Patron of:Appenzell Innerrhoden, Austria3, Bad Sulza, Piedmont4, Saint-Maurice5, Sardinia6, St. Moritz7
Patron of:alpine troops, armies, armourers, Burgundians, Carolingian dynasty, clothmakers, dyers, hatters, Holy Roman Emperors, House of Savoy, infantrymen, knife grinders, Lombards, Merovingian dynasty, Pontifical Swiss Guards, soldiers, swordsmiths, weavers
Invoked against:arthritis, cramps, gout
1Provincia Aegypti (Imperium Romanum) / Ἐπαρχία Αἰγύπτου (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [30 BC– 270 / 273–297]
2Provincia Alpes Graiae et Poeninae (Dioecēsis Gallliarum) (Roman Empire) / επαρχία Άλπεις Γραίαι και Ποινιναί (Διοίκηση Γαλατίας) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [41/54–296]
3Österreich
4Piemonte / Piemont
5Acaunum / Agaune
6Sardinnya / Sardegna
7Sankt Moritz / San Murezzan / San Maurizio / Saint-Moritz

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia