Raymond of Penyafort
(1180-1275)
Dominican Master General and archbishop and saint
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Raymond of Penyafort, OP (Catalan: Sant Ramon de Penyafort, Spanish: San Raimundo de Peñafort; c. 1175 – 6 January 1275), was a Spanish Dominican friar in the 13th century, who compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canonical laws that remained a major part of Church law until the 1917 Code of Canon Law abrogated it. He is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church and is the patron saint of canon lawyers.
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1180 Vilafranca del Penedès, Catalonia, Crown of Aragon
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6 January 1275 (aged 94) Barcelona, Crown of Aragon
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