San ramon nonato historias

Raymond Nonnatus , O. His nickname Latin : Nonnatus , "not born" refers to his birth by Caesarean section , his mother having died while giving birth to him. Raymond is the patron saint of childbirth , midwives , children , pregnant women, and priests defending the confidentiality of confession. According to the traditions of the Mercedarian Order, he was born in the village of Portell today part of Sant Ramon , in the Diocese of Urgell.

He was taken from the womb of his mother after her death, hence his name. His well-educated father planned a career for his son at the royal court of the Kingdom of Aragon. When the boy felt drawn to religious life, his father ordered him to manage one of the family farms. What is known is that Raymond spent his childhood tending sheep and would often pray at an ancient country chapel nearby dedicated to Saint Nicholas.

If he was of aristocratic descent, clearly his father eventually abandoned hopes for his son's social advancement. His father later gave him permission to take the habit with the Mercedarians at Barcelona. Raymond was trained by the founder of that order himself, St. Peter Nolasco. Raymond then set out to fulfill the goals of the Order.

He went to Valencia , where he ransomed Christians from slavery. He then traveled to North Africa, where he was able to ransom another captives in Algiers , and then went to Tunis , where he is said to have surrendered himself as a hostage for 28 captive Christians when his money ran out, in keeping with a special fourth vow taken by the members of the order.

He suffered in captivity as a legend states that the Moors bored a hole through his lips with a hot iron, and padlocked his mouth to prevent him from preaching. He was ransomed by his order and returned to Spain in Raymond died at the Castle of Cardona , sixty miles from Barcelona , either on August 26 [ 4 ] or on August 31, To resolve this dispute, the body was placed on a blind mule, which was let loose.

Unguided, it went to the nearby country chapel where he had prayed in his youth.

San ramon nonato historias

It was there that he was buried. In the historiography and hagiography from the 16th century it is repeatedly claimed that upon his return to Spain in , Pope Gregory IX nominated him Cardinal Deacon of Sant'Eustachio , [ 6 ] and that he died en route to Rome. Eustachio —, and has concluded that Raymond was never a cardinal. His feast day is celebrated on August In the United States, the Parish of St.

Raymond Nonnatus in Joliet, Illinois ;, [ 10 ] St. Raymond Parish in Raymond, Illinois and St. Raymond Catholic Community in Downey, California; [ 11 ] are under his patronage. Due to the story of his own birth, Raymond quickly became widely invoked by women facing childbirth. Due to his limited historical importance, however, since the reforms of the Church calendar in , the liturgical commemoration of Raymond's feast day is no longer included among those to be necessarily observed wherever the Roman Rite is celebrated, [ 13 ] but, since he is included in the Roman Martyrology for August 31, Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours may be recited in his honor on that day as in the pre General Roman Calendar , which is observed by some traditionalist Catholics.

One particular devotion is centered around the padlock that is part of his martyrdom. Locks are placed at his altar representing a prayer request to end gossip, rumours, false testimonies and other sins of the tongue. The locks are used as a visible sign of such prayer request, which first and foremost must take place interiorly, a prayer to God through St.

Raymond's intercession. Pictured in the habit of his order surrounded by ransomed slaves, with a padlock on his lips. The series is based on the successful memoir trilogy of the same title, in which the author Jennifer Worth used "Nonnatus House" as a pseudonym for the Anglican community of the Sisters of St John the Divine in Whitechapel, where she actually worked.

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