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| | The Golden Legend: The Life of Saint Maurice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Maurice is said of amarus, that is bitter, and cis, that is to say, vomiting odour, or hard, or of us, that is to say, counsellor or hasty. |
 | | And the noble man, Maurice, was duke of this holy legion; and they that governed under him, which bare the banners, were named Saint Candidus, Saint Innocent, Saint Exsuperius, Saint Victor, and Saint Constantine, all these were captains. |
 | | Peter of Amiens rehearseth that in Burgundy was a proud clerk and ambitious which had gotten a church of Saint Maurice, and usurped it by force against a mighty knight which was contrary and against him. |
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