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Raymond was born at Portella, Catalonia, Spain. He was delivered by caesarean operation when his mother died in childbirth. Hence his name non natus (not born). He joined the Mercedarians under St. Peter Nolasco at Barcelona. He succeeded Peter as chief ransomer and went to Algeria to ransom slaves. He remained as hostage for several slaves when his money ran out and was sentenced to be impaled when the governor learned that he had converted several Mohammedans. He escaped the death sentence because of the ransom he would bring, but was forced to run the gauntlet. He was then tortured for continuing his evangelizing activities but was ransomed eight months later by Peter Nolasco. On his return to Barcelona in 1239, he was appointed Cardinal by Pope Gregory IX, but died at Cardona a short distance from Barcelona the next year while on the way to Rome. He was canonized in 1657. He is the patron saint of expectant mothers and midwives because of the nature of his own birth. Although his mother died in labor, Raymond miraculously survived the ordeal. His feast day is August 31.
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๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐๐ต. ๐๐ข๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ถ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐บ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐บ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.
