Raymond of Penyafort was a Catalan friar with the Dominicans who was a canon lawyer. He compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canonical laws that remained a major part of Church law un
Tomb of St. Raymond in the Cathedral of Barcelona
The St. Raymond Peñafort Building
The Royal, Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives, also known as the Mercedarians, is a Catholic mendicant order established in 1218 by Peter Nolasco in t
Our Lady of Mercy – From the Generalate of the Mercedarian Order.
Peter Nolasco (1189-1256)
The habit of the Mercedarian order.
La Mercè basilica in Barcelona where the Mercedarian mother church, current building built between 1765 and 1775.