A nun gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday January 15th 2014 in Italy, Italian media reported yesterday.
The Salvadorean nun said she had no idea she was pregnant, she was rushed to the hospital because she felt stomach cramps while in her convent.On reaching the hospital, she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy weighing 3.5 kilograms (9 pounds).
“I did not know I was pregnant. I only felt a stomach pain,” the nun was quoted as saying at the hospital, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
The 31-year-old mother and baby are doing well and other new mothers in Rieti hospital have begun collecting clothes and donations for her, the reports said.
ANSA said the nun had named her baby Francesco (Francis) — also the pope’s chosen title and one of the most popular names in Italy, where St Francis of Assisi is the much-loved national patron saint.
The nun belongs to the “Little Disciples of Jesus” convent in Campomoro near Rieti, which manages an old people’s home and reports said she would keep the baby.
Her fellow nuns were quoted saying they were “very surprised”.
