Christian Feast Day: Raymond of Penyafort

Raymond of Peñafort

Dominican Master General and archbishop and saint (c. 1367–1439)

Raymond of Peñafort was a Catalan friar with the Dominicans who was a canon lawyer. He 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 was canonized by Pope Clement…