Peter gave an account of the marian apparition...
to St. Raymond of Penyafort, his confessor, who also had a similar vision on the same night.
Both of them then went to the King, James, and found that he had already been informed of Heaven's will by the Queen of heaven.
As they could no longer doubt the designs of God...
they eagerly set about the prosecution of so holy a work.
Raymond wrote rules for the new Order.
And Peter, who received, in the Barcelona Cathedral of the H.Cross, the habit which they had adopted, was named its first General.
Besides the customary vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience, the Orden de la Merced binds itself to a fourth vow, which consists in the readiness of each of its members to offer himself as a substitute for any Christian captive, if it be deemed necessary.
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