In Mexico, he is invoked for silence and protection against curses.
He was called non natus, “not born,” because he was taken out of his mother’s womb after she died in labor.
He voluntary offered himself as a slave to save others and while in captivity,
he gave comfort to other Christians in captive and hoped to convert his captors to Christianity.
To punish and to stop St. Raymond from preaching, his lips were pierced with a
red-hot iron and his mouth closed with a padlock.
TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS PROPERS IN ENGLISH: Saint Raymond Nonnatus, Patron of midwives, pregnant women, unborn children, and women in labor; Saint Aristedes
