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In respect to Saint Maurice, the name was changed from Acaunum (French: Agaune) to Saint-Maurice in 1003. [5] Some traces of a Bronze Age settlement were found at the foot of the rocky spur in town. There was a Roman era town at Saint-Maurice, but very little is known about the actual layout of it. There was a customs post at Acaunum, where an ...
[5] Maurice was also the patron saint of a Catholic parish and church in the 9th Ward of New Orleans and including part of the town of Arabi in St. Bernard Parish. The church was constructed in 1856, but was devastated by the winds and flood waters of Hurricane Katrina on 29 August 2005; the copper-plated steeple was blown off the building. The ...
Clervaux Abbey. The Abbey of St. Maurice and St. Maurus of Clervaux (Luxembourgish: Benediktinerabtei hellege Moritz) (French: Abbaye Saint-Maurice et Saint-Maur de Clervaux), founded in 1890, is a Benedictine monastery in Clervaux, Luxembourg. It is a member of the Solesmes Congregation in the Benedictine Confederation.
The abbey of St. Maurice is built on the ruins of a Roman shrine of the 1st century B.C. dedicated to the god Mercury in the Roman staging-post of Agaunum. According to Eucherius, Bishop of Lyon, around 370, Theodorus, Bishop of Valais, constructed a small shrine to commemorate the martyrdom of St. Maurice and the Theban Legion, which was said to have occurred in the area where the abbey is ...
Agaunum. Agaunum was an outpost in Roman Switzerland, predecessor of the modern city of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais, southwestern Switzerland. It was used by the Roman Empire for the collection of the Quadragesima Galliarum. [ 1] In Christian tradition, Agaunum is known as the place of martyrdom of the Theban Legion.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Maurice-de-Cazevieille (French: [sɛ̃ mɔʁis də kazvjɛj]; Occitan: Sent Maurici de Casasvièlhas, lit. 'Saint-Maurice of Old Houses') is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Maurice-sur-Eygues ( French: [sɛ̃ mɔʁis syʁ ɛɡ]; literally "Saint-Maurice on Eygues "; Vivaro-Alpine: Sant Maurici) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France .
St-Maurice. St-Maurice railway station (French: Gare de St-Maurice, German: Bahnhof St-Maurice) is a railway station in the municipality of Saint-Maurice, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the Simplon line and the terminus of the Saint-Gingolph–Saint-Maurice line. [1]