Feast day: August 31
St. Raymond Nonnatus
A Spanish Mercedarian friar who traveled to North Africa to ransom Christian captives from slavery and, when his money ran out, offered himself in exchange as a hostage.
His name means 'not born' — delivered after his mother died — which, with his ransoming of captives, made him patron of midwives and expectant mothers.
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