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Raymond Nonnatus, O. de M. (Catalan: Sant Ramon Nonat, Spanish: San Ramón Nonato, French: Saint Raymond Nonnat, Maltese: San Rajmondo Nonnato), (1204 – 31 August 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.
Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The principal cast of the show has included Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony Hannah, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Cliff Parisi, Stephen McGann, Linda Bassett and Charlotte Ritchie.
The book is set in Poplar, in the East End of London, where "Jenny Lee" (Worth’s maiden name) works as a midwife and district nurse, attached to a convent, Nonnatus House (a pseudonym for the Community of St. John the Divine, where Worth actually worked). [4]
In preparation for the show's upcoming tenth season, here's a look at what the stars of Call the Midwife really look like.
Viewers have expressed concern that the character may have left her role at Nonnatus House after becoming engaged in the previous episode. Call the Midwife chronicles the lives of a group of ...
In the 2014 Christmas Special, Cynthia decides to become a postulant and leaves Nonnatus House for six months of training, promising Trixie and Patsy that she will return. In Series 4, Cynthia returns to Nonnatus House after her training is complete, having chosen the religious name of Sister Mary Cynthia.
In 1848, physician Robert Bentley Todd founded St. John's House to improve nursing in London's hospitals. [2] The Sisters of St. John oversaw the training of secular nurses for both King's College Hospital in London and for private district nursing. [3]
The Full House creator, who appears in the documentary, explains that he bought the house for $4 million in 2016, with the intention of using it to film Fuller House.