Maurinus von Köln
9th-century German abbot said to have died as a martyr
Feast: 10 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Maurinus of Cologne was a 9th-century German abbot who is said to have died as a martyr. He is recognised as a saint by the Roman-Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. His 12th-century shrine rests in Saint Pantaleon's Church, Cologne. Saint Maurinus' Church, Lützenkirchen is dedicated to him. His saint's day is 10 June.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Bruno the Great Saint“A tomb containing his bones was found together with the remains of Saint Pantaleon and Bruno the Great when construction of Saint Pantaleon's Church began in 966 on the spot of an earlier Benedictine monastery.” — Wikipedia
- santiebeati.it — San Maurino di Colonia — santiebeati index entry 56650: ‘San Maurino di Colonia | Abate | festa 10 giugno’. The 1916 Roman Martyrology has him on the same day: ‘Colónie sancti Mauríni Abbátis et Mártyris’ (10 June).
- Wikidata Q15116552 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Maurinus of Cologne (CC BY-SA)
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