Rome — A Salvadorean nun who said she had no idea she was pregnant gave birth in Italy after she felt stomach cramps in her convent and was rushed to hospital last Wednesday, January 15, 2014.
The 31-year-old mother and her baby boy, who weighs 3.5 kilograms (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."
La Repubblica said she gave birth on Wednesday.
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".
The discovery of her pregnancy has embarrassed the Catholic Church in Italy, with the local bishop saying that she will have to leave her convent in Rieti, north of Rome, after breaking her vow of chastity.
"It would be preferable that she now lead a secular life with her baby, away from religious institutions," said a spokesman for Delio Lucarelli, bishop of Rieti.
The nun, who is from El Salvador, had kept her pregnancy a secret and even as she was being taken to hospital in an ambulance denied that she could be pregnant.
After the unexpected birth, people at the hospital began collecting clothes and donations for the new mother, who said she plans to raise the baby.
The unnamed woman is not the first nun to give birth in recent months. In October, an American woman studying to be a nun secretly gave birth, but ended up smothering the child to death. The nun in training told police she didn’t want anyone to know that she had sex.
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