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Saint Peter Nolasco (1189-1256), Pere Nolasc in Catalan, Pierre Nolasque in French and Pedro Nolascoin Spanish, is a Catholic saint, born at Mas-des-Saintes-Puelles, Languedoc, today's France, although some historians claim he was born in Barcelona (see Encyclopedia Britannica).

It is clear is that he was in Barcelona when he was a teenager, became part of an army fighting the Moors in the Iberian peninsula, and was appointed tutor to the young king, James I of Aragon. In 1218 he formed a congregation of men that became th Royal and Military Order of our Lady of Mercy of the Redemption of the Captives with approval by Pope Gregory IX in 1230.

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