The Order of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, or Carmelite Order (in Latin Ordo fratrum Beatæ Virginis Mariæ de monte Carmelo) is the name of a Catholic order founded in the 12th century by a certain Berthold (d. after 1185) on Mount Carmel, Israel, whence the order receives its name. Carmelites - Origin and early history. Carmelite tradition traces the origin of the Order to a community of hermits on Mount Carmel that succeeded the schools of the prophets in ancient Israel, although there are no cer ...

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Carmelites

Members of a Catholic religious order that originated as an organization of lay hermits near Haifa on Mt. Carmel ca. 1200.

Around 1238 conditions in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem forced the Carmelites to emigrate to Europe. There, Innocent IV (1247) approved changes in their life-style that included permission to settle not only in desert sites but in the towns of Europe. At that time the Carmelite hermits became friars.

Hermitical origins and a mendicant status created the basic Carmelite tension between solitude and (ministerial) community. There are two branches of the order: Carmelites of the Ancient Observance and Discalced Carmelites, with women and men and lay affiliates in both.

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The Carmelites OF Mary Immaculate is an Eastern Catholic religious order for men. It belongs to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. It was the first such religious order within India. The first monastery of the order was established on May 11, 1831 in Mannanam, Kerala, India. But it quickly grew. The order was founded by Father Thomas Palackal, Father Thomas Porukara and Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara. It is dedicated to the renewal of church life by the training of pr ...

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The original rule of the order was now changed to conform to that of the mendicant orders on the initiative of Simon Stock and at the command of Pope Innocent IV. Their former habit of a mantle with black and white or brown and white stripes was discarded, and they wore the same habit as the Dominican, except that the cloak was white. They also borrowed much from the Dominican and Franciscans rules. Their distinctive garment was a scapular of two strips of gray cloth, worn on the breast and back, and fastened at the shoulders. This, accordin ...

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The Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church is a church in Dublin, Ireland maintained by the Carmelite order. The church is noted for having the relics of Saint Valentine, which were donated to the church in the 19th century by Pope Gregory XVI from their previous location in the cemetery of St. Hippolytus in Rome. The church is on the site of a pre-Reformation Carmelite priory built in 1539. The current structure dates from 1825 and was designed by George Papworth, who also designed of the St. Mary' ...

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A friar is a member of a religious mendicant order of men. This term is particularly appropriate for members of these four orders: Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans and Franciscans. Friars differ from monks in that they are called to a life of poverty in service to a community, rather than cloistered asceticism and devotion. Its etymology is from Old French frere (brother) which in turn comes from Latin frater. St. Francis of Assisi called his followers fratres minores, which G. K. Chesterton translates more co ...

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The Spiritual life for Roman Catholics. Once a Catholic has accepted the faith (fides quae creditur) by making a personal act of faith (fides qua creditur), then one lives out faith throught spirituality. Although all Catholics are expected to pray together at Mass, there are many different forms of spirituality and private prayer which have developed over the centuries. Each of the major religious orders of the Catholic Church has its own unique spirituality - its own way of approaching God in prayer and in living out the Gospel. ...

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• Catholic Spirituality - Redemptorist Spirituality
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Carmel is most often a placename, almost always deriving from Mount Carmel in Israel, its primary reference; the name became prominent because of its use by and association with the Carmelite order of the Roman Catholic Church, in which it is even used metaphorically for the religious life; a person becoming a Carmelite is said to "enter Carmel". The associations of the name thus remain primarily geographical or Catholic. Carmel - Related to Israel. Carmel may refer to the carmel daisy, a plant nativ ...

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The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum), more commonly known as the Dominican Order, or Dominicans is a Catholic religious order. In England and some other countries the Dominicans are referred to as Blackfriars on account of the black "cappa" or cloak they wear over their white habits, just as the Carmelites are known as "Whitefriars" for the same reason. Founded by Saint Dominic de Guzman in the early 13th century, it is one of the great orders of mendicant friars that revolutionized religious life in Europe during the high middle ages. It is managed by the Master of ...

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Complete name of this city: Ávila de los Caballeros Ávila is a town in the south of Old Castile, the capital of the province of the same name, now part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is renowned for Teresa of Avila, the Carmelite reformer who lived there; the Ávila city wall, which is the second-largest in the world and the Cathedral. ...

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Abigail (אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל "her Father's joy or, fountain of joy" ;leader of/is dance/, Standard Hebrew Avigáyil, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĂḇîḡáyil / ʾĂḇîḡāyil), once Abigal (Samuel 2 3:3), is a female character in the Bible. She is described as the wife of Nabal the Carmelite, whose life she saves when David wishes to kill him. On his death she became the 3rd wife of David (Samuel 1 25). By her David had a son, whose name appears in the Hebrew of 2 Samuel 3:3

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1156 - Events. Establishment of the Carmelite Order Hogen Rebellion in Japan January 20 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland. The Privilegium Minus elevates Austria to the status of a duchy ruled by the Babenburgs family. (see History of Austria). Mosan artists create the Stavelot Triptych, a masterpiece of goldsmithing, as a reliquary to house purported pieces of the True ...

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1226 - Events. Carmelite Order approved by Pope Honorius III Frederick II calls Imperial Diet of Cremona 1226 - Births. June 21 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (died 1279) Abul-Faraj, Armenian scholar (died 1286) Bar-Hebraeus, Armenian historian and bishop (died 1286) 1226 - Deaths. March 7 - William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader October 3 - Franci ...

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1515 - Year in topics. 1515 in art 1515 - Births. March 28 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (died 1582) July 21 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (died 1595) September 8 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (died 1585) September 22 - Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England (died 1557) October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (died 1586) October 8 - Mar ...

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Abbeys and priories in Wales is a link page for any abbey, priory, friary or other religious house in Wales. Abbeys and priories in Wales - Abbreviations and Key. List of abbeys and priories, Abbeys and priories in England, Abbeys and priories in Scotland, Abbeys and priories in Isle of Man, Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland, Abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland, Dissolution of the Monasteries, List of castles, List of museums, List ...

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Albert Avogadro (1149-September 14, 1214), was a canon lawyer who served as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1204 until his death. Born in Parma, Albert was educated in theology and law and served as Bishop of Bobbio until 1184, when he was appointed Bishop of Vercelli. He served the Papacy as a mediator and diplomat between Pope Clement III and Frederick Barbarossa. He served as papal legate in 1 ...

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Aylesford is a large village on the River Medway in Kent, 4 miles NW of Maidstone in England. Originally a small riverside settlement, Aylesford has expanded rapidly over the past thirty years to gain a population of around 11,000. It has a long history. Aylesford - History. There has been activity in the area since neolithic times. There are a series of chamber tombs north of the village, of which Kit's Coty House, 1.5 miles to the north is the most famous; all have been damaged by farming. Kit's Coty is t ...

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Saint Valentine or Saint Valentinus refers to one of at least three martyred saints of ancient Rome. The feast of Saint Valentine was formerly celebrated on February 14 by the Roman Catholic Church until the revised calendar 1969. The feast of St. Valentine was first decreed in 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine— and Saint George— among those "...whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God." The creation of the feast for such dimly conceived figures may have been an attempt to supersede the pagan holiday of Lupercalia that was still ...

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Because much of Haifa is built on top of the Carmel mountain, the Carmelit (named after this mountain) is a peculiar subway system that goes up and down the mountain - an underground funicular. This also made the Carmelit cars have a very distinctive slanted design. The altitude difference between the first and last stations is 274 meters. The Carmelit is one of the smallest subway systems in the world, having only four cars, six stations and its single tunnel spanning a mere 1800 meters. These four cars are divided into two two-car trains, which run on single track with a short double trac ...

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