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Maurus the Boy Martyr
boy martyr at Rome
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Feast: 10 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Rome in the cemetery of Thraso on the Via Salaria Nuova, Saint Maurus, martyr, whom Pope Saint Damasus celebrates as an innocent boy whom no torture drew away from the faith.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 10 December as a martyr buried in the cemetery of Thraso at Rome, whom Pope Saint Damasus praised as an innocent boy whom no torture drew away from the faith.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 10 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Ra4b476b5 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.