Chivalrous knight, created by St Maurice from Kush?

[Derek]

St Maurice as a mounted Knight

Saint Maurice (Moritz or Mauritius), pictured here with St Elmo, was the Knight Commander of the famous Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century.

Medieval statue of St Maurice in Magdeburg Cathedral, Germany

His name was found inscribed on the Spear of Destiny (according to the Discovery Channel programme I saw last night).


Saint Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius) was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century, and one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that group. He was the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms. He was also a highly revered saint in the Coptic Orthodox Church as Maurice was a Black christian from Meroe and not an Egyptian (his full-size statue, entirely black, can be found at the Cathedral of Magdeburg, Germany).

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Saint_Maurice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Maurice

http://romanchristendom.blogspot.com/2008/09/saint-maurice-martyr-black-saint-and.html

[Nylah]

Re: Chivalrous knight, created by St Maurice from Kush?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">from Meroe </div></div>

where is this Derek?

[Derek]

Re: Chivalrous knight, created by St Maurice from Kush?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">from Meroe </div></div>

where is this Derek? </div></div>

Nubia - today's Sudan.

[Nylah]

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okay thanks.

I havent heard that name before for the region.

[Derek]

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According to last night's Discovery Channel, Maurice refused to worship Caesar as a God, stating there is only one true God.

So Maurice and one-tenth of his legion were beheaded and maurice was martyred.

[Nylah]

Re: Chivalrous knight, created by St Maurice from Kush?

I'm just reading the link and it says that eventually the entire legion was wiped out.

[Nylah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Some historians[who?] suggest that this was a pious fabrication by Theodore, bishop of Octodurum, sometime between 388 and 394, whom Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, cites as his source for this story, to encourage his contemporary Christians serving in the Roman army to ignore the orders of their pagan superiors and instead side with the Christians. This view is not accepted by traditional Church historians, who assert the authenticity of this lost account. If it was a later fabrication, by Eucherius himself, its dissemination was certainly successful in drawing pilgrims to the abbey at Agaunum. That institution was created ex nihilo from 515 onwards by Sigismund, the first Catholic king of the Burgundians. The abbey was unique in its time as the creation of a king working in concord with bishops, rather than an organic development that occurred round the central figure of a holy monk. The new abbey was without doubt in need of a strong founding legend.

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[Derek]

Re: Chivalrous knight, created by St Maurice from Kush?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm just reading the link and it says that eventually the entire legion was wiped out. </div></div>

Yes.



His idyllic nature was the basis for future knight chivalry.

[Derek]

Re: Chivalrous knight, created by St Maurice from Kush?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Some historians[who?] suggest that this was a pious fabrication by Theodore, bishop of Octodurum, sometime between 388 and 394, whom Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, cites as his source for this story, to encourage his contemporary Christians serving in the Roman army to ignore the orders of their pagan superiors and instead side with the Christians. This view is not accepted by traditional Church historians, who assert the authenticity of this lost account. If it was a later fabrication, by Eucherius himself, its dissemination was certainly successful in drawing pilgrims to the abbey at Agaunum. That institution was created ex nihilo from 515 onwards by Sigismund, the first Catholic king of the Burgundians. The abbey was unique in its time as the creation of a king working in concord with bishops, rather than an organic development that occurred round the central figure of a holy monk. The new abbey was without doubt in need of a strong founding legend.

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Politicians even back then!