Saint Raymond Nonnatus, O. de M. (†1240) is a saint from Catalonia in Spain. His nickname (Latin: Nonnatus, "not born") refers to his birth by Caesarean section, his mother having died while giving birth to him. He took the habit with the Mercedarians at Barcelona. The order was founded to ransom Christian captives from the Moors of North Africa. Raymond was trained by the founder of that order himself, St. Peter Nolasco. He was ordained a priest in 1222 and later became Master General of the Order. He set out to fulfill the goals of the Order, ransoming Christians from slavery in Valencia and North Africa. In 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 with the Moors boring a hole through his lips with a hot iron, and padlocking his mouth to prevent him from preaching until he was ransomed by his order. Due to the story of his own birth, Raymond quickly became widely invoked by women facing childbirth. Raymond is the patron saint of childbirth, midwives, children, pregnant women, and priests defending the confidentiality of confession. He was canonized in 1669 by Pope Clement IX and his Feast Day is commemorated on August 31.
Round white-metal glass-fronted reliquary theca housing first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Raymond Nonnatus. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as S. Rajmund. Non. (Saint Raymond Nonnatus). On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of Monsignor Ugo Poletti (†1997), the Vicar General of Rome (1973–1997). The reliquary is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued by the Vicar General of Rome in 1993.
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- ID#: 38-RSHGR
- Size: 33 mm across
- Age: ca. 1993
- Origin: Vatican
- Materials: metal, glass, silk, paper, Spanish wax
- Price: SOLD!
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