| LC control no. | n 82075577 |
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| Corporate name heading | Mercedarians |
| Variant(s) | Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Ransom of Captives Mercedarios Orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced Ordo Beatae Mariae Virginis de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum Nolascans Ordre de Notre Dame de la Merci Brethren of the Redemption of Captives Mercidarians Orden de la Redención de Cautivos Order of Our Lady of Mercy for the Ransom of Captives Orden de la Merced Orden de los Mercedarios Order of Our Lady of Mercy Knights of St. Eulalia Knights of Saint Eulalia OdeM (Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Ransom of Captives) O. de M. Order of Our Lady of Ransom Orden Mercedaria Ordo de Mercede Redemptionum Ordo de Mercede |
| Found in | Religiosos mercedarios en Panamá (1519-1992), 1996: t.p. (Juan Zaporta Pallarés, O. de M.) New Cath. encyc. (Mercedarians, popular name for the Order of Our Lady of Mercy (from Spanish "merced"); members have been known also as Knights of St. Eulalia; full name: Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Ransom of Captives (OdeM); in Latin: Ordo Beatae Mariae Virginis de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum; f. 1218 by St. Peter Nolasco; also: Orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced; Orden de la Merced) Encyc. Brit., 15th ed. (Peter Nolasco, Saint: founder of the order of Our Lady of Ransom (Mercedarians or Nolascans) religious institute originally designed to ransom Christian captives from the Moors; today the Mercedarians are engaged mostly in hospital work) El amor médico, 1997: ser. t.p. (Orden Mercedaria) Redemptionum Ordinis de Mercede opera omnia, 2019. |
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