Overview

• The day’s principal commemoration centers on Saint Maurice, commander of the Theban Legion, whose refusal to offer pagan sacrifices led to his unit’s execution at Agaunum in present‑day Switzerland.
• Tradition attributes to Saint Maurice the patronage of armorers, tailors, dyers and infantry soldiers, with popular devotion invoking his protection against cramps and gout.
• Santa Basila of Rome is remembered as a young convert who rejected a pagan marriage and was martyred on the Via Salaria during Diocletian’s persecution.
• Listings also include figures such as San Silvano de Levroux, San Emeramo, San Ignacio de Sandone and the Austrian priest Blessed Otto Neururer, killed at Buchenwald in 1940 and cited as the first cleric to die in a Nazi concentration camp.
• Outlets explain that the santoral marks each date with saints and beati as a way to recall their witness, invite intercession and guide onomástica observance.