St. Raymond of Peñafort served as confessor to St. Peter Nolasco and helped him establish the Mercedarians, an order founded in 1218 for the purpose of ransoming Christians who had been taken captive by the Moors during the Crusades. He wrote the order’s rule based on that of St. Augustine.
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