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Papias and Maurus were a pair of Christian martyrs from an unknown era of persecution. Their cult as saints dates back to at least the 7th century and is recorded in pilrgim itineraries which record them as originally being buried in the Large Catacomb on via Nomentana. Their relics were rediscovered in Sant'Adriano al Foro Romano in 1590 and given by cardinal Agostino Cusani, who then held that church as his titular see, to Santa Maria in Vallicella, where they were placed under the building's high altar with the relics of those of saints Flavia Domitilla, Nereus and Achilleus.
The Roman Martyrology records them on 29 January. According to a late and legendary martyrdom account, they were soldiers martyred in the Diocletianic Persecution] by order of the praefectus urbi Laodicius, who ordered they be beaten and whipped to death.
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- (in Italian) "Trecanni entry".