St Maurus Medal Dutch Inscription Help Our Sick Goldtone Aluminum

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St Maurus Medal Dutch Inscription Help Our Sick Goldtone Aluminum.  3/4" dia.
Saint Maurus, O.S.B.
(or
Maur
), was the first disciple of Saint Benedict of Nursia, offered to the monastery by his noble Roman parents as a young boy to be brought up in the monastic life. There is a famous story involving Saint Maurus's rescue of Saint Placidus, a younger boy offered to Saint Benedict at the same time as Saint Maurus, wherein Maurus rescued Placidus from drowning by walking on water. The incident has been reproduced in many medieval and Renaissance paintings.
In art, Maurus is depicted as a young man in the garb of a monk, usually holding an abbot's cross or sometimes with a spade (an allusion to the monastery of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, literally "Saint Maurus of the Ditches").
Another of Saint Maurus' attributes is a crutch, in reference to his patronage of cripples. He is also sometimes depicted with a scale, a reference to the implement used to measure a monk's daily ration of bread. Saints Maurus and Placidus are venerated together on 5 October.
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