Raymond is the patron saint of childbirth, midwives, children, pregnant women, and priests defending the confidentiality of confession.

What is known is that Raymond spent his childhood tending sheep and would often pray at an ancient country chapel nearby dedicated to Saint Nicholas.

He suffered in captivity as a legend states that the Moors bored a hole through his lips with a hot iron, and padlocked his mouth to prevent him from preaching.

In the historiography and hagiography from the 16th century it is repeatedly claimed that upon his return to Spain in 1239, Pope Gregory IX nominated him Cardinal Deacon of Sant'Eustachio,[6] and that he died en route to Rome.

A shrine in Buenos Aires and the Roman Catholic Diocese of São Raimundo Nonato (Raymundianus) in Brazil are dedicated to him.

Locks are placed at his altar representing a prayer request to end gossip, rumours, false testimonies and other sins of the tongue.

[2] The 2012 BBC drama series Call the Midwife features Nonnatus House, a convent of religious sisters of the Church of England; it is set in a deprived area of the East End of London in the 1950s.

The series is based on the successful memoir trilogy of the same title, in which the author Jennifer Worth used "Nonnatus House" as a pseudonym for the Anglican community of the Sisters of St John the Divine in Whitechapel, where she actually worked.