Saint Maurus of Pécs

Saint Maurus
Bishop of Pécs
Province	Esztergom
Diocese	Pécs
Appointed	1036
Term ended	c. 1075
Predecessor	Bonipert
Other posts	Abbot of Pannonhalma
Personal details
Born	c. 1000
Died	c. 1075
Nationality	Hungarian
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sainthood
Feast day	the fourth Sunday of October (till 1913) October 25 (from 1913)
Canonized	July 22, 1848 (cult confirmed) by Pope Pius IX
Patronage	Diocese of Pécs

Saint Maurus of Pécs or Mór (Hungarian: Mór pécsi püspök) was the first known prelate who was born in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma between around 1029 and 1036, and bishop of Pécs from 1036 until his death around 1075. He wrote the Legend of Saints Benedict and Andrew Zorard, two hermits who lived in the region of Nyitra (Nitra, Slovakia). Maurus's own cult was confirmed by Pope Pius IX in 1848.

Maurus was born around 1000. János Karácsonyi and other historians have suggested that he was born in the region of Nyitra, but he himself does not refer to it as his place of birth in his work on the two hermits from the same region. The Legend of Saint Emmeric relates that Maurus was still a child when his parents sent him to the Benedictine abbey at Pannonhalma. The Legend also reveals that Maurus was on friendly terms with Emeric, the saintly crown prince of Hungary. For instance, Maurus was the only monk whom Emeric greeted with seven kisses on the occasion of one of his visits in the monastery, demonstrating his conviction that Maurus had respected his vow of chastity.

Emeric's father, Stephen I, the first king of Hungary appointed Maurus abbey of the monastery in 1029 at the latest. According to the Greater Legend of Saint Gerard, Maurus sent four monks from Pannonhalma to assist Gerard, the first bishop of Csanád (now Cenad, Romania) in organizing the new diocese. The Annales Posonienses narrates that Maurus was appointed the second bishop of Pécs in 1036.

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