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Maurice

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• Pronounced： [ MAWR-is (English), mə-REES (English), mo-REES (French) ]
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• Usage：English, French

From the Roman name Mauritius, a derivative of MAURUS. Saint Maurice was a 3rd-century Roman soldier from Egypt. He and the other Christians in his legion were supposedly massacred on the orders of emperor Maximian for refusing to worship Roman gods. Thus, he is the patron saint of infantry soldiers.... [more]

MAURUS   male   Late Roman Latin name which meant "dark skinned". This was the name of numerous early saints, most notably a follower of Saint Benedict.