Maturinus

Maturinus, or Mathurin (died when the boy was twelve. According to legend, he began to perform miracles, drive out demons, and calm rowdy or riotous individuals. He eventually converted his parents to Christianity.

He became a priest at the age of twenty, and took care of the diocese when the local bishop went to Rome. was rebuilt beginning in 1153, and the church became a popular pilgrimage site, which Harry Bailey, host of the Tabard Inn of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was recalling, when he swore "by that precious corpus Madrian". Both Louis XI and Henry IV visited the church.

Maturinus’ cult became popular during the Middle Ages. He was invoked against mental illness and infertility, Due to his association with madness and mental illness, he also became the patron saint of comic actors, jesters, and clowns. He was also the patron saint of sailors (in Brittany), of tinmen (in Paris), and of plumbers.

In France, Trinitarian friars were known in France as “Mathurins”; this is because the Trinitarians were based in the church of Saint-Mathurin in Paris from 1228 onwards.

His relics were destroyed by the Huguenots.