Sts. Maurus and Felix

A life spent serving ordinary people.

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June 15 · Priest, Confessor

Sts. Maurus and Felix

Sts. Maurus and Felix

A life spent serving ordinary people.

Traditional feast

June 15
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

February 4
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Priest
Confessor

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A life spent serving ordinary people.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 15 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Venerated in the diocese of Spoleto. Authority A life given by Ughellus from the archives of the Church of Spoleto,] S. Maurus was a priest of Caesarea in Palestine, who, feeling a great desire to visit Rome, left his wife Euphrosyne, at home, but took with him his infant son Felix, and the child's nurse. Having visited Rome, he settled down at a place now called San Felice, between Teramo and Narni, where S. Maurus built a habitation for himself, the child and the nurse. He is said by popular tradition to have killed a monstrous serpent that infested the neighbourhood with his stonemason's hammer, as he was building the house. S. Felix, his son, is believed also to have raised a dead person to life. The bodies of the^ three repose at S. Felice.

Feast days

Feast: February 4
Traditional: June 15

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Raban-Maur Alcuin Otgar.jpg · Fulda · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Fulda, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.