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September 22 Santoral Honors Saint Maurice and the Theban Legion, Saint Basila, and Blessed Otto Neururer

The coverage presents the feast-day calendar as a guide to patronage customs rooted in onomástica traditions.

Overview

  • Spanish outlets LA GACETA and El Norte de Castilla publish the day’s commemorations for Monday, September 22, 2025.
  • Saint Maurice, commander of the Theban Legion of Egyptian Christian soldiers, is remembered for refusing pagan sacrifices under Emperor Maximian and being executed in Switzerland around the year 287.
  • Saint Basila of Rome is recalled as a young convert who chose martyrdom on the Via Salaria during the Diocletian persecutions rather than abandon her faith or marry a pagan noble.
  • Blessed Otto Neururer, an Austrian priest, is listed as having died in Buchenwald in 1940 and is described as the first clergyman killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
  • The listings also include other figures such as San Emeramo of Regensburg, San Florencio, San Ignacio de Sandone, Santa Iraides, Santa Salaberga, Santino, San Silvano of Levroux, and San Emérito of Gévaudan, while noting Saint Maurice’s patronage of armorers, tailors, dyers, and the infantry.