San Ramon Nonato

Felipe de la Espada, born San Germán, Puerto Rico ca. 1754-died San Germán, Puerto Rico 1818 · late 18th-early 19th century

San Ramon Nonato is the patron saint of slaves. He is also widely invoked by women in labor, as protector of newborns and patron of midwives. He acquired the name “non natus” (unborn) because he was delivered from his mother’s womb by cesarean section. He is the patron saint of Catalonia in Spain, and the many images of him in Puerto Rico attest to the migration of Catalonians to the island in the nineteenth century.