Maturinus
Saint Maturinus | |
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Statue of Saint Maturinus. Church of Tessy-sur-Vire. | |
| Born | Larchant |
| Died | ~300 AD Rome |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Feast | November 1 |
| Patronage | comic actors, jesters, and clowns, as well as the patron saint of sailors (in Brittany), of tinmen (in Paris) and of plumbers; invoked against mental illness and infertility. |
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Maturinus, or Mathurin (died ca. 300 AD) 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. In the next century, a biography of Maturinus was composed.