Raymond of Peñafort
Raymond of Peñafort (c. 1175 – 6 January 1275) was a Dominican friar 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 VIII in 1601 and is the patron saint of canon lawyers.
He wrote one of the first manuals for user of the inquisitors, the Directorium inquisitoriale (1242).
Patron saint of canon lawyers; all types of lawyers, Barcelona, Kingdom of Navarre
In the Martyrology
- January 6 Birth of Saint Raymond of Penyafort, priest
- January 7 Saint Raymond of Penyafort, priest, Dominican master general