Saint maurice

St. Mauritius (also Saint Maurice, Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius) was a European Moor, who was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century AD. He has been the Patron Saint of many European countries for centuries now. This depiction (which is stylized far from other traditional depictions) was completed by Austrian master painter Marx Reichlich (1460–1520),

1525-27 - Illustration from the Hallesche Heiltumsbuch - German, drinking horn decorated with a statuette of St. Maurice DETAIL:

Statue of Saint Maurice. Germany, 1613. Münster (Münster Cathedral). Hickey & Robertson, Houston (The Menil Foundation). [a note: Many Moors outfitted in Knighted armour are wrongly labelled as St. Maurice, when in-fact they represent the hundreds of other Moorish Knights who lived and fought in Europe in the middle ages.]

German statue of St. Maurice patron saint of the holy roman empire.

Folio 227v of the manuscript (watercolour on vellum) depicts the reliquary of St Maurice.The life-size silver reliquary statue was the most important that Albrecht owned. Its designer remains unknown. This work was the prototype of later paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop. The manuscript was illuminated probably by a pupil of Cranach, perhaps by Simon Franck (active 1525-49,known also as Simon von Aschaffenburg,or Pseudo Geünewald).

medievalpoc: Anonymous German artist Reliquary Bust of Saint Maurice Germany (c. 1460) Polychrome and Gilded Wood Brühl, Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Margaretha. The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

Saint Maurice is venerated as a Black Christian Martyr. The Legend Of Saint Maurice: Early Black Christian Martyr Before acquiring his status as an early Black Christian Martyr, Saint Maurice commanded the Thebian Roman Legion based in Roman Egypt The story of the legend of Saint Maurice the early