Raybold, George A., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was horn in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 18,1802. He was converted in April. 1822, and began to preach in 1825. In April. 1829, he withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church, and joined the Meth- odisl Protestanl Church, bul reunited with the Meth- odist Episcopal Church in September, 1831. In 1833 be was admitted on trial in the Philadelphia Confer- ence, ordained deacon in 1835, and elder in \x.\~. When the New Jersey Conference was formed, he was set off with it. and continued to till the several appointments to which he was assigned until 1*17. when he was granted a supernumerary relation. For over thirty was a great Sufferer from disease, and yet maintained a devout, patient spirit until his death, at Haddonfield, N. J., Dec. ■!. 1876.— Minutes of Annual ofthi M. /'. Church, 1877, p. 159.
Rayland, John, D.D., a. learned minister of the Baptist denomination in England, was horn al War- wick Jan. 29, 1753. In bis childhood he developed re- markabli I cholar. Having been thoroughly
trained under the tuition of his father, he became his assistant in the si i 1 under his charge, and bis suc- cessor when he retired from his official duties. Hi be- gan to preach in 1771 al Northampton and its vicinity. In 17*1 he became colleague with his lather in the pas- torate of the Northampton church, and sole pastor on the removal of bis father to Enfield. He occupied this position for ten years, and then became pastor of the
Broadmead Chapel in Bristol, and at the same time president of the Baptist Institute in that place. Here he continued until his death, May 25, 1825. Brown Uhi- versity conferred the degree ol D.D. on Dr. Rayland in 177-J. His S< rmons, etc., were collected after his death, and published in two octavo volumes. The funeral ser- mon of I >r. Rayland by Robert Hall presents a most charming portraiture i f this excellent man. (J. C. S.)
Raymond, St. (Spanish, San Ramon), a Roman Catholic prelate who flourished in Spain in the tir.-t half of the 13th century, is frequently called by his sur- name Nomatus, which he owe- to the fact that he was taken out of the body of his mother after her death by i he i lesarean operation. He was thus horn at Portel, in Catalonia, in 1204, and was of a gentleman's family of small fortune. His early life was spent in the moun- tain fastnesses of his native country: but when he had attained to the years of a maturer youth, he Bel out tor the court, and there attracted attention. The dissipa- tion of bis royal associates disgusted him, and he sought the ret i rem, -in of the cloister, lie joined the Order of Mercy, which aimed at the redemption of captives from the Moors, and was admitted by the founder himself, St. Peter Nolasco (q. v.). While in Algiers he was taken up by the authorities, and punished with excruci- ating torture-, of the body; but he bore all meekly, and even continued his work after his release. The story goes that the governor, when informed of the incurabil- ity of Raymond's zeal of propagandism, had him seized anew, and his lips were bored through with a red-hot iron and fastened with a padlock. He was released alter eight months' imprisonment, and taken back to Spain by friends of his. and under direction of the pope of Rome, who shortly after made him a cardinal. lie; was also made the general of his order, and a- such was invited to vi-it Rome. On his way thither he fell sick at Cardona, only six miles from Barcelona, and died Aug. 31, 1240. Both pope Gregory IX and king .lames of Aragon as.-isted at his funeral. Pope Alexander VII inserted Raymond's name- in the Martyrohgy in 1657. See Butler, Lives of thi Saints, viii, 567 sq.
Raymond oi Magnelonne, a French mediaeval prelate, flourished near the opening of the 12th century. It. is supposed that he was of the family of the nobles of Montpellier. He was bishop from 1129, but not with- out opposition. Bernard, count of Substantion, finding the choice of Raymond contrary to his views, lor re- venge, tried to destroy the church of Magnelonne; but the constancy of Raymond triumphed over this opposi- tion, and forced the same Bernard to make public con- fe— ion of his fault. The name of thi- bishop i- cited in many of the acts mentioned or published by t lie Gallia Christiana and L'Uisioiri de Languedoc of M. Vaissette. He died in November, 1159.— Hoefer, • nirale, s. v.
Raymond or Penafort {Saint), a Spanish Do- minican, was born in 1175 at the chateau of Penafort, in Catalonia, and belonged to one of the noble families of Spain allied to the royal house of Aragon. lie was educated at Barcelona, ami made such progress that at the age of twenty he taught the liberal arts at that. place. He went to perfect himself at the University of Bologna, where he received the title of duet or in civil ami canonical law. Attracted by hi- reputation, w hich was still rising. Beranger, bishop of Barcelona, on his returning to his church from Rome, went in see him at Bologna, and succeeded in persuading him to return with him to Spain, lie did not. however, content him- self with the mere discharge of the duties of his canon- ieatc and bis archdeaconry in the Barcelona cathedral, but wa- very much occupied with all manner of good works. He finally felt persuaded to take the Dominican