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St. Mathurin of Larchant

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St. Mathurin of Larchant

Priest, Confessor

Mathurin is remembered as a priest and patron of Gâtinais. His shrine at Larchant drew pilgrims, and a Paris church bearing his name gave the French Trinitarians the name Mathurins.

Sources

The life below remains the existing Butler-based reading, with its edition citation. The profile preserves the feast date and source title already listed in the library. Additional personal dates and historical details are shown only when separately documented.

Traditionally patron of: Gâtinais
Butler names Mathurin as apostle and patron of the region.
Shrine remembered: Larchant, near Nemours
The notice describes the pilgrimage shrine and the later name Mathurins for the French Trinitarians.

Butler sourceAlban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 9, “St Mathurin, Priest, Confessor,” pp. 218-219.

Butler’s Lives of the Saints (1846)Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 9, “St Mathurin, Priest, Confessor,” pp. 218-219.

Emblems of Saints (1860)Frederick Charles Husenbeth, Emblems of Saints, second edition, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London, 1860, p. 268, “Patrons of Arts, Trades, and Professions.”

The reading

ⓘ Butler source

Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 9, “St Mathurin, Priest, Confessor,” pp. 218-219.

Mathurin was remembered as a priest and preacher in the Gâtinais region of France. Butler describes his conversion to the Christian faith and the generosity with which he gave up his possessions. His subsequent priestly work was directed toward bringing that same faith to others.

His shrine at Larchant, near Nemours, became a place of pilgrimage. Butler records that his remains had first been deposited at Sens before the greater part was carried to Larchant. He also names churches in Paris that bore Mathurin’s name.

One of those Paris churches was given to the Trinitarians in 1228. From their association with it, the members of the order came to be called Mathurins in France. Butler calls the saint the apostle and patron of Gâtinais. The notice’s chronology is broad and uneven, so this reading does not assign an exact year to his ministry or death.

Historical note

An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 sources. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.

The notice’s broad and inconsistent chronology is not converted into exact life dates.

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