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"To become a hostage in the hands of the infidels, if that is necessary for the deliverance of Christ's faithful."
~ The fourth vow of the Order of Our Lady of Ransom (Mercedarians), founded in the thirteenth century by St. Peter Nolasco, which rescued some half-million slaves between the years 1218 and 1632.