title: Maurus
text: # Maurus
  
  Maurus is a Latin given name. It can refer to:
  
  ## Persons
  
  ### Saints
  
  * Saint Maurus of Parentium (3rd century), the first bishop of Parentium and the patron saint of Poreč
  * Saint Maurus (c. 500 - c. 584), the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia
  * Blessed Maurus Magnentius Rabanus (Hrabanus) (c. 776 (784?) - 856)
  * Saint Maurus of Pécs, the second bishop of Pécs, and abbey of Pannonhalma (c. 1000-c. 1075)
  
  ### Others
  
  * Servius the Grammarian, commentator on Vergil sometimes called Maurus Servius in medieval manuscripts
  * Maurus of Salerno [de] (c.1130 - 1214), medical writer and teacher
  * Mister Maurus, an archetypical school teacher developed by Anton Hansen Tammsaare
  * Sylvester Maurus (1619-1687), Italian Jesuit theologian
  * Kuber (Maurus the Kuber), brother to Tervel's father Asparukh and son of Kubrat Kaghan of Patria Onoguria
  * Maurus, religious name of secret agent monk Alexander Horn
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * The inhabitants of Mauretania, ancient kingdom and late Roman province
  * Maurus, a genus of gossamer-winged butterflies
  