Name
Maurice/Maurikios, East Roman Emperor (582-602) and his sons
Saint ID
S00039
Reported Death Not Before
602
Reported Death Not After
602
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Monarchs and their family
| ID | Title | E00050 | Theophylact Simocatta, in his History (8.11-13), describes the execution in 602 of *Maurice (East Roman Emperor, S00039) and his sons, by the men of the usurper Phocas, all in the region of Constantinople. A hagiographical account of their deaths, now lost, is probably written under Heraclius. Their execution is miraculously announced by statues in Alexandria (Egypt). Written in Greek in Constantinople in the early 7th century. | E03846 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 28 August *Elisabeth (mother of John the Baptist, S01328), the deposition of the relics of *Paula (the elder, follower of Jerome, S01510), *Serapion (ascetic monk, S01511), *Jerome (monk and writer, S00267) and *Marcella (associate of Jerome and Paula, S01512), *Maurice (Roman emperor, ob. 602, S00039), and an unidentified martyr. | E08039 | The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (AM 6094) states that when the emperor *Maurice and his sons (S00039) were killed after his overthrow by Phokas in 602, milk flowed with the blood of one of his slaughtered sons. Chronicle compiled in the Byzantine Empire in the early 9th c., using extracts from earlier Greek texts. |
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