Raymond Nonnatus was a Mercedarian friar and missionary from Catalonia in Spain. His byname, meaning "not born" in Latin, refers to his birth by Caesarean section, his mother having died in labour.

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• Baitoa
• Dominican Republic
• Moncada
• Tarlac
• childbirth
• expectant mothers
• pregnant women
• newborn babies
• infants
• children
• obstetricians
• midwives

1204

31 August 1240 (aged 35–36)

Canonized

13 August 1669

Pope Clement IX

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