Mercy, Ransom, Redemption: The Mercedarian Order and Their Mission to Set the Captives Free - Softcover

Peterson, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985550993

Publisher: Catholic Treehouse, 2024

Synopsis

Eight centuries ago, men bound themselves by vow to ransom captives held for their faith — even offering their own freedom, and sometimes their lives, in exchange. That charism still lives today in the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, known as the Mercedarians.

*Mercy, Ransom, Redemption* is not a history lecture. As author Larry Peterson puts it, "This book is not a book about religion. It is a storybook about people who found a calling to become part of a religious order." Across forty-one true accounts, you'll meet the friars carrying that eight-hundred-year-old mission today, the saints and martyrs who founded and sustained it — Peter Nolasco, Raymond Nonnatus, Maria de Cervellón, Serapion of Algiers — and the everyday people whose lives were changed by crossing paths with them: a man redeemed after being written off by everyone around him, a young man reached through the Queen of Martyrs, laypeople who carry the Mercedarian charism into ordinary life.

Grounded in Scripture's own definition of ransom (1 Timothy 2:5-6) and told with the pacing of a storyteller rather than a historian, these accounts trace one mission across eight centuries — from the order's founding through the Spanish Civil War's martyrs to the friars serving parishes in America today.

Whether you're discerning a vocation, drawn to the lives of the saints, or simply looking for true stories of extraordinary sacrifice, Mercy, Ransom, Redemption invites you to come meet the Mercedarians.

Edition details

• Publisher: Catholic Treehouse
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798985550993
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164