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9 unusual facts about Carmelites


Kingdom of Matamba

While the country was visited by missionaries from Cahenda and also from the Barefoot Carmelites, a permanent mission was not established.

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.

Our Lady, Star of the Sea

Stella Maris Monastery, the foundation house of the Carmelite order was established on Mount Carmel, Israel, in the early thirteenth century.

Prado, Montevideo

Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, popularly known as "Iglesia de los Carmelitas" (Roman Catholic, Carmelites)

Salpointe Catholic High School

The Board of Members consists of the members of the Provincial Council of the Society of Mount Carmel of Illinois (The Most Pure Heart of Mary Province of the Carmelite Order).

Under the guidance of the Carmelites, Salpointe has developed an active campus ministry.

Steven Vanackere

Steven Vanackere received his secondary education at the Sint-Albertuscollege in Haasrode, run by the Carmelite Friars, where he studied Latin-Mathematics.

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.


Bar Convent

Mother Superior Catherine Rouby, the Superior at the time, also provided shelter to fugitive nuns including Carmelites from Brabant, Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre from Liège and Poor Clares from Dunkirk.

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.

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.

Croatian Carmelite Province of Saint Joseph the Father

Outside Croatia, the Carmelites have two monasteries in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and near Tomislavgrad, one in Nënshat, Albania, one in Medvode, Slovenia, and one in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Döbling Carmelite Nunnery

Above the altar, there is a copy of a wooden figure of the child Jesus from the 18th century which the Carmelites had brought from their hermitage in Mannersdorf.

Hugh of Saint-Cher

In 1247, upon instructions of Pope Innocent, Hugh revised the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert, which the Saint Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, had given the first Carmelite friars on Mount Carmel.

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.

Juan Bautista de Lezana

He took the habit at Alberca, in Old Castile, 18 October 1600, and made his profession at the house of the Carmelites of the Old Observance, at Madrid, in 1602.

Paul Noël Lasseran

These include Chapelle des Carmélites, Lectoure (1889), Église paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Goutz (1901–1903), Église Sainte-Blandine, Castet-Arrouy (1901) and Église Saint-Christophe, Masseube (Gers) 1932-1933.

Salmanticenses

Salmanticenses and Complutenses, Discalced Carmelites lecturing and publishing ecclesiastical courses in Salamanca viz.

San Ángel Inn

It was initially built by the Carmelites, for the purpose of becoming a monastery, but official records show that the concession was granted by Carlos III to the Counts of Pinillas and the Marquis of Sierra Nevada.

Sanctuary on San Cristóbal Hill

The land on which the sanctuary was built was donated by the communities of the Recoleta Dominica church and the Saint Teresa Carmelites of Santiago.

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.

Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

It states that Pope John XXII had a vision of Our Lady granting that through her special intercession, Mary will come down to personally deliver the souls of Carmelites and Confraternity members out of Purgatory on the first Saturday after their death ("Sabbatine" means Saturday), as long as they fulfill certain conditions including wearing the brown scapular.

Solemnity

The optional memorial of Saint Patrick on 17 March is a solemnity in Ireland, the memorial of Saint Josemaría Escrivá on 26 June is a solemnity within the prelature of Opus Dei, and the optional memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July is a solemnity for the Carmelites.

Timothy Joseph Lyne

The Principal Co-Consecrators were then-Auxiliary Bishops of Chicago, Alfred Leo Abramowicz (Titular Bishop of Pesto), and Nevin William Hayes, O. Carm. (Titular Bishop of Nova Sinna).

Viorica Cortez

She also reprised one of her best recent characters, Madame de Croissy, in Les Dialogues des Carmelites, for the opening of the 2008-2009 season at Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, in the famed production of Robert Carsen.

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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