Feast of Our Lady of Ransom
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The Feast of Our Lady of Ransom is a Roman Catholic liturgical Marian feast. In the General Roman Calendar of 1960, it was celebrated on 24 September, commemorating the foundation of the Mercedarians.
Maria de Mercede, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio (c. 1472)
Mary, the mother of Jesus is known in Christianity by many different titles, epithets, invocations, and several names associated with places.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Byzantine icon, possibly 13th or 14th century
Dormition of the Mother of God 10th-century ivory plaque, Cluny
Madonna and Child among Ethiopian saints, Ethiopia, mid-17th-century
Copy of Our Lady of Mercy from Lwów Cathedral before which John II Casimir Vasa first made vows to Mary, "Queen of Poland and Lithuania in 1656