Maura of Ravenna

About Maura of Ravenna

The February 13 Roman Martyrology remembers Fusca and her nurse Maura together at Ravenna. The French Bishops' Conference calendar likewise identifies Maura as Fusca's nurse and lists their local feast on February 13. These sources establish the identity and observance carried by this catalog record as a received church-calendar tradition.The Bollandist Acta Sanctorum dossier prints two versions of the Acts of Fusca and Maura. These narratives portray Maura as Fusca's nurse and companion, but they are hagiographic witnesses rather than contemporary records. In its historical commentary, the Bollandist editor says the older Acts do not establish when the women lived or under which emperor they died. The Roman Martyrology's Decian setting is therefore presented here as received tradition, not a verified date of death.The dossier also preserves differing accounts of where the women suffered and where their relics were later taken, including Ravenna, Sabratha in Tripolitania, and Torcello. This profile does not turn those narratives into a settled itinerary or assert a securely known death place. Maura here is not Maura, wife of Timothy the Reader, whom the Orthodox Church in America commemorates on May 3 and places in Egypt.