Raymond of Penyafort, born around 1175 near Barcelona in the Principality of Catalonia and who died on 6 January 1275, was a Catalan Dominican friar and canon lawyer. At the request of Pope Gregory the Ninth he compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a comprehensive reorganization of the Catholic Church's scattered canon law into unified, authoritative volumes, which remained the standard reference for ecclesiastical law for nearly seven hundred years until the 1917 Code of Canon Law superseded it. He was canonized in 1601 by Pope Clement the Eighth and became the patron saint of canon lawyers.
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