. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. urst asunder, and they were loosed fromcaptivity. And this Queen Radegunda afterwards took thereligious habit at the hands of St. Medard, bishop of Noyon,founded a monastery for nuns at Poitiers, and lived in greatsanctity, ministering to the poor. She is represented withthe royal crown, under which flows a long veil; she has acaptive kneeling at her feet, and holding his broken fet:ersin his hand. When the Order of the Trinitarians was introduced intoEngland by Sir William Lucy of Charlecote, on his returnfrom the Crusade, he
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. urst asunder, and they were loosed fromcaptivity. And this Queen Radegunda afterwards took thereligious habit at the hands of St. Medard, bishop of Noyon,founded a monastery for nuns at Poitiers, and lived in greatsanctity, ministering to the poor. She is represented withthe royal crown, under which flows a long veil; she has acaptive kneeling at her feet, and holding his broken fet:ersin his hand. When the Order of the Trinitarians was introduced intoEngland by Sir William Lucy of Charlecote, on his returnfrom the Crusade, he built and endowed for them ThellesfordDugdaie. Priory in Warwickshire, i and dedicated it to the honourof God, St. John the Baptist, and St. Eadegunda. The Order of Our Lady of Mercy. st. reter Among the converts of St. John Matha, when he preached theJMWM258. deliverance of captives in Languedoc,was the son of a nobleman of that country, whose name was Peter Nolasque, or Nolasco. In his youth he had served in the Crusade against the Albi- ST. PETER KOLASCO. 221. 42 •Wtlllllld^ Badge of the Orderof Mercy. genses, and afterwards became the tutor or governor of theyoung king, James of Aragon. Struck with the miseries of Don Jayme,war, which he had witnessed at an early age, and by the fate tadoTquibof the Christians who were kept in captivity by the Moors, he founded, in imitation of San Juan Mata, acommunity for the redemption of slavesand captives, and prisoners for debt, towhich he gave the name of £ The Order ofOur Lady of Mercy. This foundation wasat first military and chivalrous, and con-sisted of knights and gentlemen, withonly a few religious to serve in the king, Jayme el Conquistador, not onlyplaced himself at their head, but gave themas a perpetual badge his own arms. From Barcelona theOrder extended far and wide, and Peter Nolasco was the firstGeneral or Superior. From this time his long life was spentin expeditions to the various provinces of Spain, the
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