What was the Incident of the Statues?

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Catholic Answers Senior Apologist Jimmy Akin describes an event in the life of Saint John Chrysostom.

Jimmy Akin was born in Texas and grew up nominally Protestant. At age 20 he experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, Jimmy started an intensive study of the Bible, but the more he immersed himself in Scripture, the more he found...

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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.