Saint Maura was a young Catholic virgin of Constantinople, cruelly martyred for the Faith. Her memory haunted the haters of the Catholic Faith for years after her death. Even Julian the Apostate, the Roman Emperor who died in 363, was worried about the way in which Saint Maura was venerated. One of the Ionian Islands, between Greece and Italy, was named after her. Her name is a beautiful variant of Mary, the name of the Mother of God.
See also: Saint Timothy and Saint Maura (286)
Julian the Apostate presiding at a conference of sectarians, by Edward Armitage, 1875 (source)
