Saint Maturinus | |
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Born | Larchant |
Died | ~300 AD Rome |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church[1] |
Feast | November 1 |
Patronage | comic actors, jesters, and clowns, as well as the patron saint of sailors (in Brittany), of tinmen (in Paris)[2] and of plumbers;[3] invoked against mental illness and infertility.[2] |
Maturinus, or Mathurin[4] (died ca. 300 AD[2]) was a Gallo-Roman exorcist and missionary venerated as a saint.
The first source to mention Maturinus is the Martyrology of Usuard, written in 875.[2] In the next century, a biography of Maturinus was composed.