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unusual facts about Carmelite



1542 in poetry

June 24 – St. John of the Cross, in Spanish: "San Juan de la Cruz", born "Juan de Yepes Alvarez", (died 1591), Spanish mystic, poet, writer, Carmelite friar and priest, who was a major figure of the Catholic Reformation

Baptista Mantuanus

Besides his sermon preached before Innocent VIII, Mantuan’s most notable works in prose include De patientia, a rambling discourse on physical and spiritual illness that includes an early allusion to Columbus’ discovery of America, and De vita beata, a dialogue on the religious life that he wrote soon after entering the Carmelite order.

Brocard

Saint Brocard, first of the priors of the Carmelite Order according to oral tradition

Carmelite Priory, Helsingør

The Priory of Our Lady was established in 1430 for a group of Carmelite friars from Landskrona.

Carmelite Rite

Over the last decade or so, a group of Carmelites living in North America (Lake Elmo, Minnesota and Christoval, Texas) adopted the eremitical life and have been experimenting with the new forms of the Carmelite rite according to the conciliar norms.

Caroline Myss

Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th-century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle (1577), towards the end of her life.

Catholic University of Ávila

The Institute offers a Catholic mysticism course, and through weekend trips, allows students to visit the cities of Segovia, Salamanca, Madrid, as well as important Carmelite sites like Fontiveros and Alba de Tormes.

Chaplet of Saint Michael

The Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel is a chaplet resulting from a private revelation by the Archangel Michael to the Portuguese Carmelite nun Antónia d'Astónaco.

Constitutions of the Carmelite Order

The reform led by Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross restored Carmelite life with a new joy and asceticism.

For the Carmelite the contemplative vocation is exemplified par excellence in the life of the Virgin Mary, beloved to the Order under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Croatian Carmelite Province of Saint Joseph the Father

The first Croatian Carmelite monastery was formed in Sombor in 1904 by members of a Hungarian Carmelite province.

François and Michel Anguier

The chief works of François are the monument to Cardinal de Bérulle, founder of the Carmelite order, in the chapel of the oratory at Paris, of which all but the bust has been destroyed, and the mausoleum of Henri II, last duc de Montmorency, at Moulins.

Henri de Saint-Ignace

Henri de Saint-Ignace (b. in 1630, at Ath in Hainaut, Belgium; d. in 1719 or 1720, near Liège) was a Belgian Carmelite theologian.

Hilary Paweł Januszewski

Hilary Paweł Januszewski, O.Carm (June 11, 1907; Krajenki – March 25, 1945; Dachau concentration camp), was a Carmelite friar of the Ancient Observance and Catholic priest, who sent by the Nazi authorities in occupied Poland to the concentration camp at Dachau, where he managed to survive until 1945.

Ingeborg Tott

She also took an interest in religion and in the order of the Carmelites; she benefited the Carmelite convent of Varberg, founded by her father, and supported the foundation of the first convent of the Carthusian Order in Sweden, the Carthusian convent of Mariefred (1493).

Ipswich Whitefriars

John Bale (b. 1495), later Bishop of Ossory, was educated at the Norwich Carmelite house and at Cambridge University, and was elected (the last) Prior of Ipswich Carmelites in 1533.

J.-M. Paul Bauchet

Jean-Marie Paul Bauchet (Orléans, 1 May 1900 - ) was a French Carmelite (of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament), and Hebraist.

Januszewski

Hilary Paweł Januszewski (1907–1945), Carmelite, friar, priest; survived in the camp of Dachau until 1945

Joaquina

Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (1783–1854), Spanish nun, founder of the Carmelite Sisters of the Charity

Johann Christoph Glaubitz

A notable building by Glaubitz was the former Carmelite church of Hlybokaye, Belarus, which he reconstructed in 1735; it is now the Orthodox Church of the Birth of Theotokos.

John Bacon

John Baconthorpe a.k.a. John Bacon (c. 1290–1346), English Carmelite monk

John Cross

John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest

John Hothby

He appears to have left England after 1435 but most of the references to him in surviving sources are to the last twenty years of his life, by which time he had taken holy orders as a Carmelite monk and he claimed in his own work to have travelled in Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, before he went to a monastery in Ferrara and then in 1467 took employment in Lucca, probably teaching music at the Cathedral.

Kuriakose Elias Chavara

Chavara took the additional name of "Elias", from the Carmelite tradition of his having been their founder.

La Alberca

The Carmelite convent of Batuecas Desert, established by Thomas á Jesu is located five kilometres away, but the route there from the town is 12 km.

Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament

She was the second daughter of Madame Acarie, the Blessed Marie of the Incarnation, who introduced the Reform of the Carmelite Order into France.

Mariam Baouardy

At that point, Mother Veronica had just received permission to transfer to the Discalced Carmelite monastery at Pau to prepare for her forming a new congregation of Religious Sisters serving in India, the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel.

Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory

From their motherhouse in Germantown, New York, the Carmelite Sisters serve in 18 elder-care facilities around the country, plus one in Ireland.

New Baltimore, Pennsylvania

New Baltimore is perhaps best known for being home to the St. John's Church, a Carmelite church located on the southern end of town.

Ohrdruf Priory

Ohrdruf Priory or Karmel St. Elija, Ohrdruf, is a Carmelite monastery at Ohrdruf in Thuringia, Germany.

Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro

When the Carmelite Order arrived in Rio in 1590, they settled in a small chapel near Guanabara Bay.

Panny

The Church of Our Lady Victorious (Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné), a Carmelite church in Prague

Patria Jiménez

Jiménez is the longtime head of Sister Juana’s Closet, a lesbian rights group named after Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Carmelite nun and renowned Mexican poet.

Poppleton manuscript

The Poppleton manuscript is the name given to the fourteenth century codex likely compiled by Robert of Poppleton, a Carmelite friar who was the Prior of Hulne, near Alnwick.

Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

The Corsini, probably the richest family in Florence during the 17th–18th centuries, had this chapel built in 1675, to hold the remains of St. Andrew Corsini, O.Carm. (1301–1374), a member of the family who became a Carmelite friar and the Bishop of Fiesole, who had been canonized in 1629.

Most of the artworks are therefore fragmentary: these include the Bestowal of the Carmelite Rule by Filippo Lippi and the Last Supper by Alessandro Allori, and remains of works from other chapels by Pietro Nelli and Gherardo Starnina.

Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites

In 1708 in Marseille, France, a full Carmelite rule of life for secular women was published, being the first known and true rule of life for the Third Secular Order (as it was them styled), and ostensibly bearing the authority of the whole Order.

Sisters of the Reparation of the Holy Face

This Holy Face of Jesus devotion dates back to Sister Marie of St Peter, a Carmelite nun in Tours France who in 1843 reported visions of Jesus and Mary in which she was urged to spread the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, in reparation for the many insults Jesus suffered in his Passion.

Springiersbach

Springiersbach Abbey is a former Augustinian (Canons Regular) monastery, and currently a Carmelite monastery in Bengel municipality, in the Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Takako Takahashi

After returning to Japan, she entered a Carmelite convent but left after one year, returning to Kyoto to take care of her mother.

Teresita Castillo

Teresita Castillo celebrated her 21st birthday by "escaping" early in the morning at five from her father's house to enter the Carmelite Monastery of Lipa.

The Interior Castle

It is also not unduly speculative that living in a walled city like Ávila, not to mention a Carmelite monastery, must have influenced her thinking from an interior perspective.

Thicket Priory

The building that was used by the community until 2009 was erected as a country house between 1844 and 1847, and was sold by Lt Col Sir John Dunnington-Jefferson in 1955 to the Carmelite Sisters of Exmouth.

Whitefriars, London

The roots of the Carmelite order go back to its founding on Mount Carmel, which was situated in what is today Israel, in 1150.

Wołodkowicz family

Members of the Wołodkowicz family founded several monasteries and churches, such as a monastery and a seven domed church in Grozovo, a monastery in Nowodwortsi, the Carmelite church in Minsk, the cathedral of Chelm, a church in Zary, a church in Radoszkowice and a Russian-orthodox church in Chashniki.


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