URI(s)
Variants
- 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
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Related Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Religiosos mercedarios en Panamá (1519-1992), 1996:t.p. (Juan Zaporta Pallarés, O. de M.)
- found: 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)
- found: 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)
- found: El amor médico, 1997:ser. t.p. (Orden Mercedaria)
- found: Redemptionum Ordinis de Mercede opera omnia, 2019.
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1982-06-28: new
- 2023-06-17: revised
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