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It's a Feria, 4th Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: the meditation: "Holiness and Charity", today's news from the Church: "St. Bernard's Birthplace will be Restored", a preview of the Sermon: "Who Are You, O Immaculata?", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org

Sources Used Today:

• "Holiness and Charity" — From the Assumption to Advent
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "St. Bernard's Birthplace will be Restored" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/france-st-bernards-birthplace-will-be-restored-61196
  
  
• "Who Are You, O Immaculata?" (SSPX Sermons)
  • SSPX YouTube: Sermons Playlist
  • Listen & Subscribe: SSPX Sermons Podcast
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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The Feast of Our Lady of Ransom has one of the more dramatic origins among the Church's Marian feasts. It grew out of a very real medieval problem: Christians were being captured, enslaved, and held for ransom around the Mediterranean.

In the early thirteenth century, Christian and Muslim powers were constantly fighting across Spain and the Mediterranean. Raids produced captives on both sides, and Christians taken into North Africa could spend years in slavery unless family, religious communities, or charitable organizations could raise enough money to free them.

Into that world came Peter Nolasco.

Peter had already begun using his own money to ransom Christian captives. According to Mercedarian tradition, however, something extraordinary happened on the night of August 1, 1218.

The Blessed Virgin appeared to Peter and asked him to establish a religious order dedicated specifically to freeing captives.

And the tradition says he wasn't the only one.

Our Lady also appeared separately to King James I of Aragon and to Saint Raymond of Peñafort. When the three men compared what had happened, the mission became clear.

The new community became the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, better known as the Mercedarians.

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