Mary of the ransom of the prisoners
The feast of Mary of the Redemption of the Prisoners on September 24th , also known as Maria de Mercede ("Mary of Mercy"), was a day of remembrance that was celebrated until 1970 in the church year of the Roman Catholic Church .
The Feast of Mary arose as a festival of its own in the Mercedarians , who collected money in order to buy Christians who were captured and enslaved in Spain from the hands of the Saracens , and was originally celebrated in early August. Pope Innocent XII. introduced it to the whole church at the end of the 17th century and put the day of remembrance on September 24th. In 1961 he was demoted to the rank of commemoration ; When the reform of the general Roman calendar came into force on January 1, 1970 , the day of remembrance of Mary from the ransom of prisoners was abolished.
The Mother of God under the invocation of “Maria de Mercede” is the patroness of Barcelona and Jerez de la Frontera and the Archdiocese of Białystok .
See also
literature
- Maret Keller: The Purity of Mary - "The Maria de la Merced" between dogma and popular piety in Spanish America . In: Cornelia Logemann u. a. (Ed.): Body Aesthetics. Allegorical embodiments as an aesthetic principle. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2025-2 , pp. 166-189.
- Maria Teresa Ruiz Barrera: La Virgen de la Merced. Iconografía in Seville . Revista “Estudios”, Madrid 2002, ISBN 84-95494-10-8 .
- Luis Vázquez: “Presencia de Maria en la Orden de la Merced”. In: Estudios Vol. 161-162, Madrid 1988, pp. 1-27.
- Vincent Francesc Zuriaga Senent: La imagen devocional en la orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced: tradición, formación, continuidad y variants . Valencia 2007, ISBN 978-84-7822-512-5 .
Web links
- Matthias Altmann: Forgotten or Abolished: Unknown Church Holidays. In: kathisch.de . 15th September 2019 .