First pic of nun who gave birth and claimed she didn't know she was pregnant

Circled is the Salvadorean nun who said she had no idea she was pregnant

when she gave birth to a baby boy last week.





33 year old Roxana Rodriguez, a nun with the order of the Little Disciples of

Jesus, initially claimed she

thought her labour pains were 'stomach cramps' when an ambulance rushed

her to the hospital.





Her picture was published this weekend in the

Italian daily newspaper, Corriere Della Sera. The new mum reportedly told her social worker:

'I am so happy. I feel more of a

mother than a nun, I think that's obvious. I decided to call him

Francis in honour of our wonderful south American Pope. I do not feel of

guilt. I will be keeping him and bringing him up. He is a gift from God. I am little

worried about all the publicity, not only in Italy but in El Salvador

and all over the world. Everyone is talking about this and I don't think

I will be able to return to my home country"

Sister Roxana took her vows and became a

nun in the order last September and has since written an apology letter

to the Church and her Mother Superior. She revealed that the father of

her child is a man from her native El Salvador but has not named him.










A priest close to the new mum told the Italian magazine:




'It all happened last spring, around March or April time when she

was back in El Salvador to get her passport renewed. She

has not said who the father is but I understand he is an, shall we say,

old flame of hers from when she was younger. At some stage I expect she

will tell the father that he has a son and they will be reunited but I

don't know when that will be