Martyr Maurice and those with him

Also known as St. Maurice the military commander · Photinus his son · Theodore · Philip · the Seventy Soldiers of Apamea

A military commander at Apamea in Syria who, with his son Photinus and seventy of his soldiers, confessed Christ under the emperor Maximian Galerius. After cruel tortures they were left bound in a marsh to be devoured by insects and so received the crown of martyrdom (c. 305).

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Notes

Commemorated as one company with his son Photinus and the soldiers Theodore and Philip among the seventy.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints