Saint raymond nonnatus biography of williams
St william patron saint of orphans
Raymond Nonnatus, O. de M. (Catalan: Sant Ramon Nonat, Spanish: San Ramón Nonato, French: Saint Raymond Nonnat, Maltese: San Rajmondo Nonnato), ( – 31 August ) is a saint from Catalonia in Spain.
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“Nonnatus” is not a surname, but rather taken from the Latin for “not born,” because he was delivered via Caesarean section and his mother did not survive the procedure.
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He is generally credited with noteworthy activity in ransoming Christian captives in Moorish North Africa and in Spain, and his zeal served as a model for the work of the mercedarian order.
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The saint of the day for August 31 is St. Raymond Nonnatus.