The Saint Maurice XVISaint Maurice was an Egyptian military leader who headed the legendary Theban Legion of Rome in the 3rd century and is one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that martyred group. He is the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms. He died in Agaunum, Switzerland 287 AD, More than a thousand years later german painter Matthias Grnewald depicts the meeting of Saint Erasmus and Saint Maurice in an oil on wood painting.