Nun gives birth to a baby boy and names him Francis.

 

 
A Salvadorean nun who said she had no idea she was pregnant gave birth in Rieti, 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 kilograms (9 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".

Mayor of Rieti, Simone Petrangeli, asked the public and media to respect the woman's privacy after the news caused huge public attention. Rieti is a small city of 47,700 people and the woman was taken to hospital by ambulance on Wednesday morning.

local pastor Don Fabrizio Borrello said the new mother planned to take care of the baby.'I guess she's telling the truth when she says she arrived at the hospital unaware of the pregnancy,' he said.

The woman is originally from El Salvador and lives at the convent.

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