ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 31st of August WELCOME! SAINT RAYMOND NONNATUS, CONFESSOR Raymond was surnamed Nonnatus [not born] because he was brought into the world contrary to the common law of nature, in that he was removed from the side of his dead mother. He rejected childish amusements and the attractions of the world and so applied himself to piety that all admired the mature virtue of the boy. HE HAD A VERY GREAT LOVE FOR THE MOTHER OF GOD He had a very great love for the Mother of God , to whom he continually and earnestly prayed. He entered the order which bore the title of the Order of Ransom , or Mercy, for the redemption of captives, and he vigilantly guarded the virginity which he had already consecrated to the Blessed Virgin . He was outstanding in the practice of the other virtues, especially in charity towards the Christians who were spending a wretched life under the yoke of pagans. POPE GREGORY ENROLLED HIM AMONG THE CARD...