Feast of Our Lady of Ransom
- Feast of Our Lady of Ransom
The Feast of Our Lady of Ransom is a Roman Catholic liturgical Marian feast on 24 September, a double major, commemorating the foundation of the Mercedarians.
History
On 10 August, 1223, the Mercedarian Order was legally constituted at Barcelona by King James of Aragon and was approved by pope Gregory IX on 17 January, 1235. The Mercedarians celebrated their institution on the Sunday nearest to 1 August (on which date in the year 1233 the Blessed Virgin was believed to have shown St. Peter Nolasco the white habit of the order), and this custom was approved by the Congregation of Rites on 4 April, 1615 (Anal. Juris Pont., VII, 136). But the calendar of the Spanish Mercedarians of 1644 has it on 1 August, as double. Proper lessons were approved on 30 April, 1616. The feast was granted to Spain (Sunday nearest to 1 August) on 15 February 1680; to France, 4 December 1690. On 22 February 1696, it was extended to the entire Latin Church, and the date changed to 24 September. The Mercedarians keep this feast as a double of the first class, with a vigil, privileged octave, and proper Office under the title: "Solemnitas Descensionis B. Mariæ V. de Mercede". Our Lady of Ransom is the principal patron of Barcelona; the proper Office was extended to Barcelona (1868) and to all Spain (second class, 1883).
Sicily, which had suffered so much from the Saracens, took up the old date of the feast (Sunday nearest to 1 August) by permission of the Congregation of Rites, since 31 August 1805 (double major), Apparition of Our Lady to St. Peter Nolasco in the choir of Barcelona, on the Sunday after 24 September. In England the devotion to Our Lady of Ransom was revived in modern times to obtain the rescue of England as Our Lady's Dowry.
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* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12640a.htm Feast of Our Lady of Ransom] - Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia
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