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Maturin or Maturinus or Mathurin_DSC02333

patron saint of lost causes, comic actors, jesters, buffons, clowns, tomfoolery, those whose business it is to amuse the public, fools, idiots, lunatics, sufferers of mental illness, plumbers, and sailors (of the Bretons and those halling from Brittany), tinmen (in Paris), the province of Gatinois (France), and of plumbers; invoked against mental illness, particular obsessions, madness, insanity, and infertility; and invoked for the healing of mental illness, epilepsy, demon possession, and people who are afflicted by fright and panic.

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