A Salvadorean nun who
said she had no idea she was pregnant gave birth in Italy this week after she
felt stomach cramps in her convent and was rushed to hospital, Italian media
reported on Friday.
The 31-year-old mother
and her baby boy, who weighs 3.5 kilogrammes (nine pounds), are doing well and
other new mothers in Rieti hospital have begun collecting clothes and donations
for her, the reports said.
“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.
La Repubblica said she
gave birth on Wednesday.
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 hospital could not
be reached for comment.
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”.
Source: Vanguard
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