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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.
Invoked by pregnant women for a safe delivery Silvia , or Sylvia , (c. 515 – c. 592) was the mother of Gregory the Great . She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church , [ 1 ] which names her a patroness of pregnant women.
Saint Ida of Herzfeld (c. 770 ... She was reportedly the mother of Warin, ... Saint Ida is the patron saint of pregnant women, brides and widows, the poor and the ...
Pregnant women - Gerard Majella; Priests - John Vianney. Diocesan priests - Thomas Becket; Princes - Gottschalk; Printers - Augustine of Hippo, [5] John Bosco; Prison officers Italian prison officers - Basilides [2] Psychiatrists - Christina the Astonishing, Dymphna; Publishers - John Bosco; Pyrotechnicians - Erasmus of Formiae [8]
Kunapipi, mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes; Rainbow Serpent, creator god and god of rain and fertility; Ungud, snake god or goddess associated with rainbows and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shaman; Wollunqua, snake god of rain and fertility
Elizabeth is revered as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church on 5 November, and in the Orthodox, Lutheran and Anglican traditions on 5 September, on the same day with her husband Zacharias/Zechariah. She is commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints (5 September) of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and Zacharias is commemorated ...
[64] [65] Monastics continue to recite the text during blessings for pregnant women in Theravāda countries, [66] [67] and often memorize it as part of monastic training. [51] Thus, Aṅgulimāla is widely seen by devotees as the "patron saint" of childbirth.
Because of the miracles that God worked through Gerard's prayers with mothers, the mothers of Italy took Gerard to their hearts and made him their patron. At the process of his beatification, one witness testified that he was known as "il santo dei felice parti," the saint of happy childbirths. [8]