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Magdeburg Cathedral (German: Magdeburger Dom), officially called the Cathedral of Saints Maurice and Catherine (German: Dom zu Magdeburg St. Mauritius und Katharina), is a Lutheran cathedral in Germany and the oldest Gothic cathedral in the country. It is the proto-cathedral of the former Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg.
The city of Coburg's coat of arms honoured the town's patron saint, Saint Maurice, since they were granted in 1493. In 1934, the Nazi government forbade any glorification of the "Black" race, and they replaced the coat of arms with one depicting a vertical sword with a Nazi swastika on the pommel. [ 28 ]
Church of Saint Maurice may refer to several churches: Église Saint-Maurice, Annecy, France; Church of Saint Maurice (Augsburg), in Augsburg, Germany; Church of Saint Maurice (Berlin), in Berlin, Germany; Church of Saint Maurice (Ebersmunster) in France; Church of Saint Maurice (Hildesheim), in Hildesheim, Germany; St Maurice's Church ...
Eastern Gothic choir. Morizkirche (or Stadtkirche St. Moriz) is a Protestant church dedicated to Saint Maurice in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany, and is the town's oldest church.. Its earliest remaining structures date back to the 14th century, which superseded a church from the 12th cent
In 1476 Ernst II of Saxony, son of the Wettin elector Ernest, was elected archbishop; he occupied the city of Halle, where he had the Moritzburg residence erected between 1484 and 1503. During the Protestant Reformation , large parts of the population within the prince-archbishopric turned Lutheran and from 1566 Magdeburg was ruled by a ...
The collection, which was first housed in the castle's chapel and later moved to the city's cathedral, composed of 353 reliquaries with as much as 21,484 single relics, among these 42 whole bodies of saints, rendering it ideally and materially extremely valuable; it was the most outstanding of its kind in Germany.
A biography of him was written by Magnobodus [1] and, in 873, his body was transferred to the Cathedral of Angers, which had already been dedicated to St. Maurice. [2] Two hundred years later, St. Maurilius was frequently mentioned together with St. Maurice as the patron saints of the Cathedral but eventually St. Maurice became the primary ...
Saint Erasmus and Saint Maurice is an oil on wood painting by German artist Matthias Grünewald. It was commissioned by Albert of Brandenburg, executed between 1520 and 1524, and originally intended for the new cathedral in Halle. It is now held at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. [1]