Saint Maurus
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Saint Maurus was a Benedictine monk best known as the first disciple of Benedict of Nursia. He is mentioned in Gregory the Great's biography of the latter as the first oblate, offered to the monastery
Saint Benedict orders Saint Maurus to the rescue of Saint Placidus by Friar Filippo Lippi, O.Carm. (ca.1445).
Maurus in the Golden Legend (1497)
Detail from Madonna and Child with St Maurus, Castel Nuovo Napoli
Reliquary of St. Maurus
Saint Benedict Medal
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The Saint Benedict Medal is a Christian sacramental medal containing symbols and text related to the life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, used by Latin Catholics, Old Catholics, Lutherans, Western Orthod
Saint Maurus
…their health. Since it is often impossible to have a relic of the True Cross, in 1959, the Sacred Congregation of Rites granted permission to use the medal of St. Benedict in place of the relic of the True Cross to confer the Blessing. The Congregation of St. Maur took its name from him. The surname "Seymour" is derived…
The two sides of a Saint Benedict Medal
Traditional, original design of the medal
A Jubilee medal by the monk Desiderius Lenz, of the Beuron Art School, made for the 1400th anniversary of the birth of St. Benedict in 1880
A Dominican rosary with a St. Benedict's Cross attached