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:* ''"Mathurins".'' In: Rev. John M'Clintock & James Strong. '''Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature.''' Vol. V - K,L,Mc. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1882. p.879.</ref>
Due to his deliverance of the girl with the evil spirit, Saint Mathurin is invoked against particular obsessions, madness, insanity, and as a protector of lunatics.<ref name="MATURINO">{{it icon}} [http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/93121 San Maturino].</ref> The faculty of medicine of the University of Paris kept their great seal safely in the Church of Saint-Mathurin.<ref>René Gandilhon. ''Sigillographie des universités de France.'' Paris, 1952.</ref> By extension he also became the patron saint of comic actors, jesters, and clowns,<ref name="Mathurin"/> as well as the patron saint of sailors (in Brittany),<ref name="Mathurin"/> of tinmen (in Paris), and of plumbers.<ref name="MATURINO"/>
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